The journey to self-love is sometimes exhausting and mentally taxing too because it’s not easy to unlearn what you have been conditioned to believe over the years. However, with several influential personalities conversing about the importance of loving our flaws wholeheartedly, the world is finally becoming less harsh and more inclusive.
Recently, Bollywood actor Vidya Balan, who is an avid advocator of loving your raw and real self, shared an incident that made her introspect her journey towards self-love.
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Taking to Instagram, ‘The Dirty Picture’ actor shared how an encounter with a fan who hated one of her face profiles got her thinking. Sharing selfies of her right and left profile sans makeup, the actor penned:
“A few days ago, at an event, this pretty girl comes up to 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.”
The girl, adamant to take another selfie with Vidya from a different angel because she hated one of her profiles, made the actor think of the time when she was also like her, asking photographers and cinematographers to avoid shooting her from the right.
However, today, she isn’t afraid of people seeing the side of her she earlier hated. She has grown to like every part of herself and changed the way she now looks at herself.
She is so comfortable with her body that she took the selfies and shared them online. Balan also encouraged others to post selfies with both sides.
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People were in awe of the actor who didn’t hesitate to share about her vulnerability and how she was able to conquer her fears related to her body.
In a world obsessed with filters and fillers, Vidya loving her OG self is the kind of influence we need RN.