“Sometimes, as women, we are very harsh on ourselves,” said Bollywood actor Huma Qureshi. Well, her statement is true to some extent. At an age when beauty is measured by someone’s clothing size and skin tone, we often self-doubt and end up looking at ourselves from someone else’s perspective. And in the bargain, forget to do what we love the most.
For Huma, the journey to self-love also started a little late. But she eventually realized that she should be kinder to herself, and not indulge in negative self-talk.
“The media can be harsh, but I feel more than the media, we can be very harsh on ourselves. For me, a very important realization (last year) was to just be kinder to yourself and not indulge in negative self-talk,” Hindustan Times quoted her saying.
She further divulged, “It was a reboot in many ways: mentally, physically, in every which way. Now, I almost feel like I am starting afresh, and don’t want to make the mistakes that I made before. I feel we can approach 2021 with more gratitude, hard work, and just being kinder and nicer to each other.”
The ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ actor later realized that seeing her pictures in newspapers was ruining her mental peace. “I realized that seeing my picture every day in the paper, outside the airport, gym, or outside here or there is not good for my own mental health. Somebody will take a bad picture in a bad angle and then move on, but I will just keep looking at myself,” she admitted adding that she wants to remember the “feeling and the mind space with which I went, maybe to the airport or to my home” and “not that somebody else has taken a picture and said something nasty.”
Hence, she has blocked that out of her mental space and wants to concentrate on her work. “I don’t want to spoil my day with it or get affected by the stuff like that. For me, seeing myself every day is not good for me. I want to be known for my work, quietly be at home, spend time with my dog, chill, read a book, go to the beach for a walk. I came here to be an actor, not to get photographed outside the airport,” said the ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ actor.
Public image is very important for a celebrity. However, in the continuous efforts to maintain it, one can completely forget living the life they want. It’s great to see Huma overcoming all that and deciding to focus on more important things.