Vidya Balan is not just a phenomenal actress but an inspiration to the masses. She has been influential to many girls and women speaking on body positivity and self-love. Balan never shied away to be vocal about her thoughts and ideologies be it on self-care or Bollywood standards. This time Vidya Balan penned a long note on self-love embracing oneself. She shared an incident when a fan girl followed her to click a photograph after her first picture clicked in the wrong profile.
While many prefer their particular profile to be clicked the actress asked not to just love one side of yourself but rather be you overall. She shared two mirror selfies where both her face profile is seen on her Instagram after an incident changed her perspective on clicking pictures.
Check out the message that everyone must read and embrace it. Sharing the incident she wrote an inspiring message. “A few days ago, at an event this pretty girl comes upto me for a pic …There was a crowd and i 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. My manager (who is very sharp) promptly told her, ’aapne toh le liya…plz aur nahi’ .
To which she said, ‘ galat side se liya,main achchi nahi lag rahi ,yeh post nahi kar paungi’. She was miserable & followed me to the car, relentless in her pursuit to get the perfect picture ..almost making it sound like her life depended on it..I obliged … I then got into the car bemused…and it made me think.”
She added, “You know I’ve always preferred my left profile over my right…but overtime as i started on this journey of trying to love & accept myself a little more each day, i realised that liking one profile meant liking one part of me to the exclusion of the other…because the truth is that i not only liked my left but also disliked my right profile.I would tell photographers & cinematographers to avoid shooting me from the right…I would be scared if someone shot me from the right cuz i thought it was my ugly side. It was almost like the fear of being found out.”
“Today with the growing acceptance and love for every part of me and all of me, i don’t care where i’m being shot from…I’m no longer scared of anyone seeing that side of me..Truth be told, today not only do i like my right profile, i actually love it… and not because my right profile changed but because i realized its never going to. What changed is the way i looked at myself and that changed how i see myself,” Vidya continued
“Hence i 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 ?. 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 ?,” she concluded.
On the work front, Vidya Balan will be next seen in Neeyat and an untitled film with Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D’Cruz, and Sendhil Ramamurthy.
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