Raveena Tandon on being body-shamed in Bollywood: ‘I was called thunder thighs’

Actor Raveena Tandon opened up about various issues in a recent interview ranging from body shaming to toxic gossip magazines that could ruin someone’s career. Speaking with news agency ANI, Raveena said 90s gossip magazines were the worst as they body-shamed women, slut shamed them and would do everything possible to bring another woman down.

Raveena revealed that she was also body-shamed in the film industry. During her interaction with Smita Prakash, the actor said, ‘No no. I was called a lot of things. 90s ke kholo, TTs, thunder thighs…miss this and miss that…’ She continued, ‘I was plump actually. Started at 16 and a half years, and I was full of baby fat yaar… which still hasn’t gone. Though I don’t care now.’

When told that she is exaggerating the facts, Raveena said, ‘I remember some of these titles. And not only me, but some other heroines were also called that. Instead of supporting women, what they did was…firstly all these women editors would fall in love with the heroes. And what the heroes said were the last words. If he wanted to pan a woman, the woman would be panned, shamed, literally, her career ruined in the magazines with nasty articles being put out about her. There were so many untrue articles put out because some hero went and said, “Acha, uske bare me aab aisa likh do…” and it would be the last word. And if there would be an apology, that would be on the last line of some other issue of the magazine. It would be written ‘The story carried earlier ultimately proved not to be true’. And who will read that then? The screaming headlines already made the news, right?’

Raveena Tandon said that she decided to take a break after marriage as she was displeased with the ‘viciousness’ of ‘90s journalism.

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