Raveena Tandon shared this picture. (courtesy: officialraveenatandon)

New Delhi:

Actress Raveena Tandon not too long ago opened up about her expertise with physique shaming throughout the early days of her profession. Speaking in an interview with Zoom, she revealed how people throughout the media trade would use derogatory phrases like “thunder thighs” and “Amazonian body frame” to explain heroines. Raveena emphasised that whereas the movie trade gave her alternatives, it was the media that subjected her and different actresses to physique shaming. Raveena recalled, “There was a lot of body shaming, and I’ll be very honest, the body shaming was not from the industry. Everyone very easily blames the film industry, but the film industry was the one that gave me chances. The media was body-shaming us. Editors who were women were busy slut-shaming heroines, trying to prove how nasty they’re or trying to question anyone’s body, face, or hair, and they were like, Oh my God, look at her thunder thighs and Amazonian body frame. These were the terms that the actresses were called at that time. It was sad at that time.”

Despite going through such challenges, Raveena credit her mother and father for offering unwavering help and energy throughout difficult times. She added, “At least I had a strong upbringing, a stable house, and my parents, who were my backbone, who were with me when I was at my lowest. That is a bad phase for anyone to go through.”

Raveena Tandon mentioned the pressures actresses usually felt to endure surgical procedures to satisfy societal requirements of magnificence. However, she expressed gratitude for not succumbing to such pressures. She shared, “A lot of female actors felt pressured to go through surgeries, but luckily I didn’t have to go through that. There was a point when I was starving myself, and then I realised, that’s seriously unhealthy what I’m doing to myself.”

On the professional front, Raveena Tandon was last seen in the Disney+ Hotstar series Karmma Calling. Up next, she will be seen in Vivek Budakoti’s Patna Shukla, alongside Satish Kaushik, Anushka Kaushik, and Manav Vij.