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Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra has discovered herself in sizzling waters greater than as soon as this previous 12 months. Earlier, an previous video of the Quantico star had resurfaced and put her in a clumsy place as soon as once more.
Final week, many took a PeeCee’s feedback from again in her early days within the business.
“I’m dusky myself and I’m very proud to be dusky. I would never go around saying that you need to become fair and that’s the only way you’d be beautiful because I don’t endorse that…” she says within the clip.
The video then cuts abruptly to totally different ads for numerous equity lotions that Chopra has endorsed and promoted over time. In a single, she is seen getting fairer with the voice-over saying, “Give your skin a pinkish, white glow.” So naturally, individuals are calling the Bajirao Mastani out for hypocrisy.
Nevertheless, the Bollywood actor had cleared her stance on the identical just a few years again.
In line with Hindustan Times, the previous Miss World shared her reasoning for not endorsing equity lotions any longer in a 2015 interview.
Priyanka stated she did the endorsements for a 12 months however later realised she didn’t must do it. “I felt really bad about it, that’s why I stopped doing it,” she stated. Priyanka additionally talked about how her household and relative would make enjoyable of her dusky pores and skin.
“All my cousins are gora-chitta (honest) I used to be the one who turned out dusky as a result of my dad is dusky. Only for enjoyable, my Punjabi household would name me ‘kaali, kaali, kaali’. At 13, I needed to place equity lotions and needed my complexion modified,” she stated.
“But then I got into films and I didn’t understand. And I did do a fairness endorsement for a year and then I felt like ‘I look pretty alright.’ I shouldn’t, I don’t wanna do this and then I didn’t do it,” Priyanka stated.
“But I was also finding my ground that time as I was 21 or 22 years old,” she added. When Barkha requested her if she would do it once more for an enormous sum of cash, she stated, “I have been offered many times, but I said no to them.”
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