We have known Bollywood as an industry of glamour. What looks on the reel is far better than real. The makeup, edits, lights, and camera are way too different from real. And this is where the insecurity and lack of self love comes to one who compares their life with this glitter-coated life.
Source: Instagram @balanvidya
Some of the B-Town actresses recently draw attention to self-love. It’s okay to not be perfect. Your imperfections make you unique.
What you see on screen is not reality and such things as inner beauty and self-acceptance.
Vidhya Balan recently shared an incident that happened to her and address to the audience that she was insecure about her one side profile. Which almost everyone can relate to. She captioned the post writing the incident with a beautiful mirror selfie in which both her profiles are visible.
And she concluded the note with “I like the way I am”
Vidya Balan wrote Instagram caption.
A few days ago, at an event, this pretty girl comes up to her for a pic. There was a crowd and she was trying to do as many pics as possible. People were jostling and in the middle of this chaos, the girl was back for another pic. Vidya’s manager (who is very sharp (said vidya)) promptly told the girl,
“Aap Ne To Le Lia(photo) Please Aur Nahi”
To which the girl said, ‘Galat side se Liya, main achchi nahi lag rahi yeh post nahi kar paungi’. She meant that the photo was taken from her profile she was not comfortable with that side of her profile and the photo was not good so she won’t be able to post it anywhere.
The girl was miserable & followed vidya to the car, rent-less in her pursuit to get the perfect picture.
almost making it sound like her life depended on its Vidya said.
Vidya obliged and then got into the car bemused and it made her think.
Everybody knows vidya always preferred her left profile over her right but over time as she started on this journey of trying to love & accept herself a little more each day, she realised that liking one profile meant liking one part of her to the exclusion of the other.
Because the truth is that she does only like my left but also disliked my right profile. She would tell photographers & cinematographers to avoid shooting her from the right.
Vidya would be scared if someone shot me from the right because she thought it was my ugly side. It was almost like finding out the fear.
Today with the growing acceptance and love for every part of me and all of her, she doesn’t care where she is being shot from. She is no longer scared of anyone seeing that side of her.
Truth be told, today not only does she like my right profile. She loves it… and not because her right profile changed but because she realised it’s never going to.
What changed is the way she looked at herself and that changed how she look at herself.
Hence, she returned to the room and took this selfie at the end of a long day sans make up. Because
“I LIKE me just the way I am,”
said Vidya.
And asked audience that Do you like one profile less than the other? If you do and even if you don’t, post that selfie with both your sides in full glory.
In one of her interviews, she said There is no end to rejecting your body and spending a lifetime doing that. But what really happens, it is not your body’s fault, your body needs at least one person on its side, and I said to myself that this is my body, and I love it.
Not just Vidya Balan but Priyanka Chopra, Malaika Arora, Ileana D’cruz, Neha Dhupia, Sushmita Sen, Sameera Reddy and Shruti Hasan has also addressed their followers regarding self-love and self-acceptance.
On that note, ending the article with You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are.
