Mumbai: With her gracious beauty, actress Ileana D’Cruz carved a niche for herself in the glamorous world. Her statuesque beauty gave her an edge in the Telugu film industry and then she shot to fame with her Bollywood debut “Barfi” opposite Ranbir Kapoor. Finally, Ileana opened up saying that she struggled to accept her unusual body type and have had body issues for a very long time.
Ileana told PTI, “There was a point when I was super skinny. And I have had body issues for very long. I was at my lightest weight and even then I felt, ‘Oh my God I am so fat.’ I am not too open about my body type. I have an unusual body type.”
The pretty damsel added, “I’ve reached a phase now where I am like, ‘You know what, I am not super happy with the way I look, but I am ready to work at it. I am not going to obsess over it’.”
When she was asked about the pressure on her to look best, the starlet replied, “Absolutely. When going out, I look in the mirror, like any other normal girl, and feel ‘I look alright’. Then I get slammed by paparazzi. I say to myself, ‘Why do I look so different in photographs?’.”
“It becomes a little bit of an obsession. I am only human. It is very important to try and not think what others think about you. You should be happy the way you are,” she further said.
“I love the fact that there are curvy models out there who are taking up the limelight. They have nothing against women who are skinny, that’s just the way they are,” she said.
