You can never win with trolls, says actress Ananya Panday, who often faces online body-shaming. The Student of the Year 2 actress was once mocked for being "too skinny," but now, netizens are buzzing about her supposed cosmetic procedures to achieve a curvier figure.
In a recent podcast with Lilly Singh, Ananya opened up about the constant scrutiny over her looks and called out the unrealistic beauty standards set by the film industry.Ananya Panday REACTS TO 'She's Got B**t Done' Rumours On Shame Less With Lilly Singh, Ananya recalled by skinny-shamed. She said, "I feel like you can never win. I was 18 or 19 when I started out, and I was really skinny. Everyone used to kind of make fun about that. They were like, 'Oh, you have chicken legs. You look like a matchstick. You are like a flat-screen TV. You don't have tits. You don't have an ass.' So that was what it was first."The Call Me Bae actress added, "Now that I'm growing up and naturally, my body is filling out, they were like, 'Oh, there's no way. She's got her butt done. She's got this done.' You can never win."Women Get More Hate: Ananya PandayAnanya also highlighted the gender discrimination and said, "It's constantly like... anything you do. No matter what shape you are, no matter what size you are. People will constantly have something to say and criticise especially with women. I don't feel like they do that to men at all. The hate that comes towards women is a lot more." However, she admitted that Bollywood films often endorse unattainable beauty expectations. "I also feel like it's our fault also, because we have set unrealistic beauty standards in films. As an actress, I have put that message out there in the films and the songs that I've done," she said. What's your take on this? Let us know.