Sridevi’s Daughter Khushi Shames the Body-Shamers in Instagram Post
Actress Sridevi’s teenaged daughter Khushi has responded to rude Instagram comments about her appearance with a lengthy post addressing body-shaming. Khushi, 15, is the younger daughter of Sridevi and her producer-husband Boney Kapoor.
In her post, Khushi explains she posts pictures of herself because it makes her “feel good and confident,” writing that “I don’t care if you think my stomach pops out or if I don’t fit into your idea of beautiful.”
“There is only one of you, embrace your beauty, and don’t rain on my parade when I’m confident enough to embrace mine,” writes Khushi, encouraging commenters to “be kind to one another.”
Khushi Kapoor’s note follows that of another star kid, actress Pooja Bedi’s 18-year-old daughter Aalia Ebrahim, who wrote a scathing response to disrespectful Instagram comments that described her as “porn ready.” In a blog piece titled ‘I am more than my breasts,’ she wrote: “If my cleavage is visible, it does not mean I am giving consent, it does not mean I am “asking for it.” I am more than my breasts and it is unfair to let them define me. I am an eighteen year old Indian girl and that does not take away the fact that I am allowed to dress the way I please… I am not my breasts and it is unfair to sexualise me and base my morals, my achievements and my goals and ambitions on my breasts… If I choose to wear a bikini, it is my choice and it is about time we grow up and let individuals be their own people without fearing what society will say. My breasts do not take away from all the social service I have done, my breasts do not take away my numerous academic and extracurricular accomplishments and awards, my breasts do not take away my strong academic position.”
Aalia and Khushi might still be too young to discover that you can never please everyone, no matter what. Actress Parineeti Chopra, 27, came by this knowledge the hard way after she spent nine months re-inventing herself. Once criticized widely for her failure to be slender, Parineeti debuted a new, toned body on social media last month, posting pictures of her fabulously fit new self. The applause, resounding though it was, could not drown out the small but insistent chorus of comments from those who saw an opportunity to be either cruel or funny. Parineeti told news agency PTI, “That (criticism) is absolutely bizarre. Being thin is a different thing. I wanted to have better stamina and control over my body. I am not endorsing being thin, I am endorsing being your fittest self.