Raveena Tandon reacts to being told she exaggerated about being body-shamed: ‘What the heroes said were the last words’

Actor Raveena Tandon just lately opened up about being informed that she exaggerated the info when talked about being body-shamed in Bollywood. During a dialog with Smita Prakash, the actor mentioned that she would not care about being ‘plump.’ She mentioned she was completely displeased with the ‘viciousness’ of 90s journalism, and took a break from the business after her marriage. Also learn: Raveena Tandon remembers taking a stand when media fat-shamed her

While Raveena has shared sometimes about her wrestle within the business as a consequence of her look, not a lot was believed by widespread folks. Talking on the traces, news company ANI quoted her saying, “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, I am being like that, I am like that, too bad!”

She added after being informed that she is exaggerating the info, “I remember some of these titles. And not only me, but some other heroines are also called that. Besides 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 naked 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 issues of the magazine, it would be written ‘the story carried earlier ultimately proved not to be true’. And who will read that then? At that time the screaming headlines already made the news, right?”

Talking concerning the magazines of the bygone eras, Raveen additionally informed ANI that some girls have been the ‘worst’ enemies of different girls as they body-shamed, slut-shamed others to deliver them down.

Raveena was final seen in KGF: Chapter 2. She has Ghudchadi with Sanjay Dutt as one among her upcoming initiatives. She can also be part of Arbaaz Khan’s Patna Shukla with Satish Kaushik. Besides these, she might be returning with the second season of her Netflix internet collection, Aranyak.

(with inputs from ANI)