TV actress Sayantani Ghosh was in an Instagram live session recently when a troll asked her bra size. While she shut her up, it prompted her to give share a long note on body shaming. She wrote about the obsession of br**sts, self-love and male entitlement. Also Read - Mouni Roy, Surbhi Jyoti, Hina Khan – 9 actresses who played Naagins in Ekta Kapoor’s TV show
“Yesterday in one of my interactive sessions someone asked me my bra size! Though I gave the person a befitting reply (which btw a lot of you appreciated) still I felt there is so much more I want to talk about.. Any form of BODY SHAMING is BAD!! Period. But particularly, I struggle to wrap my head around the fact that what is this fascination towards female BREASTS ?? As to what size it is ?? A cup, B, C or D etc ?? And it's not only the boys, even us girls have this sort of a conditioning!” she wrote. Also Read - Shivangi Joshi to Sriti Jha: Meet the hot and happening moms from the most popular TV shows
The actress wrote that she couldn’t fathom the hype around bre**sts. “There are few parts to such mental conditioning. 1: Why is it so difficult to accept that it's just another body part?? I know it has meaning when it comes to a nursing mother or certain purposes of passion, but in the end isn't it another body part ??? What we don't realise is that such perspectives or hype over the female breast, throw few of us women, in fact most women get into a very f**ked up head space!” she wrote. Also Read - Surbhi Chandna pens down a note as Sanjivani completes a year; says, 'Secretly wish to reunite for another season'
On the topic of self-love and self-acceptance, Sayantani wrote, “2: Where is the concept of Self- acceptance and Self-love ?? Few of us who are well endowed start feeling conscious about it, and start hoping that ‘I wish I was flat or small chested’ and few of us feel the need for implants!!! Remember those times when you went to buy a nice pair of dress and the only reason you didn't buy it because either your breasts looked too small or big in it ?? It's like we are never good enough !! We are so uncomfortable even talking about it!!”
The actress also wrote about male entitlement. “3: IT'S TIME TO STOP The next part of my thoughts is, who gives such rights to men?? Why do men feel that you are entitled to look at a woman this way or talk to her this way?? May be it's us ..yes girls its us for tolerating this sh*t and not speaking up! Often we shy away from facing these men due to a feeling of shame, or avoiding such points so that we don't create a scene and the list of reasons can go on… I too have kept quiet so many times feeling uncomfortable when I saw a man staring at my breasts!!” she added.
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