Body Shaming

“They’re like, ‘How did you go from Alex Dunphy to being a whore?” Ariel Winter opened up about the body-shaming she experienced as a teenager while filming Modern Family. On an episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans, Ariel explained how online trolling dramatically increased once she turned 12. “My…

Almost a decade into his Bollywood career, Arjun Kapoor has not only delivered a variety of performance-driven films, most recently in Dibakar Banerjee’s gender-bending Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, but has also reclaimed his sizzling hot physique that he had wowed the audience with his debut. Chhokra is still jawaan –…

AN AMUSEMENT PARK has apologised for body-shaming a teenager who wanted to use the water slides. Some visitors were horrified when staff at the water park requested that they stood on a weighing scale, with customers saying they felt "fat-shamed." 2 The weighing scale was introduced recently in the park…

Global obesity rates are on the rise, but body shaming campaigns are doing more harm than good, says medical anthropologist Nancy N. Chen. Reflecting on how the cultural histories of body ideals have changed over time, she offers a new way to view ourselves and our health by enhancing body…

Women become the victim of body shaming and colourism in India and many films in Hindi and as well as Tamil promote such cruelty to women. We all know Deepa Akka as a comedian and a character artist but her fierce yet polite statement on body shaming will definitely make…

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Kris Bernal on beauty standards—’there’s none’ Actress Kris Bernal has always been slim, even sharing in one of her recent videos that it’s not funny having a waistline between 22-23 inches. She would always have the clothes altered to fit her body frame. @krisbernal Recently, she posted a photo of…

After a roaring response for Masaba Masaba, Ashvini Yardi is gearing up for the second season of her show as they film in Kashmir. As the filmmaker shoots for her upcoming show, Ashvini met Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the scope and future of…

The year is 2021, and yet some people still think that body shaming others in public is a funny thing to do. While that’s already embarrassingly outdated, imagine making fun of an Olympian who represented the country.  Nurul Akmal, who competed in the women’s +87 kg category in weightlifting at…

Actress Chhavi Mittal bashed a troll who called her skeleton and skinny through an Instagram post. She called out a user named 'Ab Bas' and gave her back with a long post of body shaming tactics. The comment on her picture by the troll was "Plz don't mind u look…