The Bengali Beauty of Bollywood, Bipasha Basu, turns 42 today. While the actress has delivered some impeccable performances in films like Raaz, Corporate, Jism and others, she has always been known more for her sex appeal and has also been open up about her skin tone, revealing on several occasion in the past how dusky became the new adjective for her. Sharing one such incident, she had written on Instagram, “Even though my mother is a dusky beauty and I look a lot like her. I never knew why that would be a discussion by distant relatives when I was a kid. Soon at 15/ 16 I started modelling and then I won the supermodel contest ... all newspapers read ... dusky girl from Kolkata is the winner.I wondered again why Dusky is my first adjective ???” Also Read - Spotted: Kiara Advani snapped visiting rumoured boyfriend Sidharth Malhotra's house
She added, “Then I went to New York and Paris to work as a model and I realised my skin colour was exotic there and I got more work and attention because of it. Another discovery of mine:) Once I came back into India and film offers started... and finally I did my first film and from an absolute Ajnabee to Hindi film industry ...I suddenly was accepted and loved. But the adjective stayed which I started liking and loving by then. DUSKY girl wows the audiences in her debut film.” Also Read - Disha Patani, Bipasha Basu, Mouni Roy — 5 divas who are making the October month even hotter
The Alone actress also spoke how the word “sexy” was associated with her skin colour as she wrote, “In most of my articles for all the work I did, my duskiness seemed to be the main discussion.. it attributed to my sex appeal apparently. And sexy in Bollywood started getting accepted widely. I never really understood this... To me sexy is the personality not just the colour of your skin...why my skin colour only sets me apart from the conventional actresses at that time. But that’s the way it was. I didn’t really see much of difference but I guess people did. There was a strong mindset of Beauty and how an actress should look and behave. I was DIFFERENT as it was pointed out. Didn’t really stop me from being and doing all that I loved.” Also Read - 5 throwback pics of Bipasha Basu from her exotic vacations that prove she’s the eternal 'Bikini Babe'
While Bipasha Basu is aging like fine wine, we hope the actress makes a special announcement on her special day. Here's wishing the gorgeous lady a very happy birthday.
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