Alia Bhatt opened up on her struggle with body image issues after she joined the film industry, and also talked about how she experienced a shift in her perspective after pregnancy and motherhood.
Alia Bhatt stepped into the Hindi film industry when she was just 18 with Karan Johar’s love triangle, Student Of The Year alongside two other debutants, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra. Over the years, the actress has craved her own space in industry with top-notch performances. But at the same time, Bhatt also have had her share of struggles with the beauty standards that’s quite rigid in showbiz.
In her latest interview with Allure magazine, Alia opened up about wrestling with body image issues after joining the film industry. Calling her experience on her debut film, Student Of The Year a ‘blur’, the actress shared that her role involved a lot of preparation.
Alia recalled, “I trained, I trained, I trained. Suddenly I was on a diet, and all my favorite things were cut out of it. So when you talk about my Student experience, it was a blur. What I remember was the prep because when I started working, it was too overwhelming. I didn’t know how films were made.”
The ‘Udta Punjab’ actress said that as a kid, she was quite chubby and healthy, and never thought that there was anything wrong with the way she looked. But, things changed when she decided to become an actress.
“I have struggled with body-image issues since then. No matter how much weight I lost, I always struggled. My friends would say, ‘Alia, you need to stop dieting. Just be calm, live a little, eat some food.’ And I used to be like, Once a fat kid, always a fat kid. I used to say that in my head, no matter how much weight I lost,” Alia told the magazine.
However, the actress noticed a shift in her perspective during her pregnancy.
Alia said, “I had so much respect for my body and was so enamored with what it could do. It made me realize that even though I was in this business, I would never be hard on myself about the way I look or certain extra kilos over here or a certain bloated belly over there.”
On the work front, Alia has three major projects in the pipeline- Vasan Bala’s Jigra, Yash Raj Films’ Alpha co-starring Sharvari, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Love And War alongside Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal.
