Priyanka Chopra on false beauty standards in Bollywood: ‘Expected that you are reed skinny…’

Actor Priyanka Chopra opened up about the false beauty standards in the Indian film industry during the podcast, ‘Call Her Daddy’. She shared how the idea that ‘lighter skin tone means you’re beautiful’ was fed constantly to her through various TV commercials she watched as a youngster.

Priyanka said, ‘In entertainment, the narratives are set by our industry. A lot of the narratives that my younger self went through were because there were ads on TV which I also participated in later. After all, it was that normal that told me that the lighter I was the prettier I was and that narrative was set by the industry that I joined.’

Priyanka Chopra said when she made her debut in the film industry almost two decades ago there was no conversation about false beauty standards and it was normal for people in the industry to ask others to be of a particular size and colour.

‘When I first joined like 20 years ago, we didn’t talk about it. It was just expected that you are reed skinny, your pelvic bones show and it doesn’t matter how you get there. You should look a certain way and anything deviating from that is not pretty.

People in fashion and people in films could actually ask you to be a certain body weight, they could actually tell you that you have to be able to get into this dress size and it was all normal. It still happens but behind closed doors,’ the actor said.

She added that ‘healthy’ conversation on ‘destructive’ beauty standards needs to take place.
Priyanka Chopra’s romantic drama ‘Love Again’ was released in the US theatres on May 5 and will release in India this Friday. Her web series ‘Citadel’ is currently streaming on Prime Video.

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