Sridevi's daughter Khushi Kapoor has become the latest celeb kid to give a fitting reply to body shamers on a social networking site
A few days ago Shweta Nanda, mother of Navya Naveli, got back at a group of people who had apparently passed a comment on Navya Naveli’s figure. In a befitting reply that she sent out to Navya’s body-shamers, she wrote that what your peers say about you, stay with you forever and impact you the most. In her message she wrote how her friend had once called her a flappy big bird and how that name has stuck to her since. She wrote, “She (Navya) is born into a family that prides itself on defying conventions. She won’t understand what I mean till she herself is much older, but has the sensitivity to make me feel she does. I can’t help but say aloud to myself, ‘Welcome to the world baby girl, learn to roll with the punches, it is the first lesson of adulthood’ (sic).”
This was the beginning. Following this, Sanjay Dutt’s daughter Trishala and Pooja Bedi’s daughter Aalia Ebrahim have also been the victims of being body-shamed.
Sridevi’s 15-year-old daughter, Khushi, has become the latest victim, and the youngest, of body-shaming. The critical comments posted by followers on Instagram did not deter her from voicing her opinion and giving them a piece of her mind. She took to Instagram and posted a photograph in which she is wearing a body-fitted grey dress, accompanied by a friend. In the caption, she wrote, “I post my pictures because I feel good and confident. I put out these pictures not because I want to show off or try to be anyone or anything else. I have my own sense of style and my own way to think and me putting out a picture that’s accessible to so many people is taken more of an opportunity to judge me or my looks, clothes or anything else. Please think twice before you decide to comment something rude or offensive, it’s not a joke. It’s sad how in this day and age where feminism is finally getting the attention it deserves, girls still feel the need to tear each other down and indulge in body shaming.”
She added, “I don’t care if you think my stomach pops out or if I don’t fit into your idea of beautiful, but for your own conscience please realise that having such narrow minded opinions of people makes you an ugly person inside. I truly believe everyone is beautiful in their own way, why can’t we all celebrate that and encourage each other. I hope that whatever it is that frustrates you enough to be so cruel will one day go away, and I know from experience it can hurt. let’s be kind to one another, love always
Bold and Beautiful
In a recent video, The Printing Machine, Kalki Koechlin has tackled the media’s portrayal of women, in a powerful example of performative poetry. Interestingly, the poem is written by the actor herself. In a statement she said, “The poem was inspired by one of the key influencers in our lives — news houses and the media. We are flooded by an onslaught of objectifying and horrific news reports and imagery that have desensitised us a culture. It is only when we look at these reports in totality do we realise what our Indian heritage and culture have come to, and how we have come to be at the mercy of printing machines. Culture Machine and the UnBlushed team did an amazing job of creating a visual rendition of Printing Machine that best expresses the violence and brutality of our culture.”