Vidya Balan: When people tell me to exercise, I want to say f**k you

Vidya Balan: When people tell me to exercise, I want to say f**k you

Mangaloretoday News Network

Vidya Balan opens up about the challenges of weight problems she has faced over the years. She revealed that she had hormonal problems since childhood.

In her fourteen years of Bollywood, Vidya Balan has essayed a variety of roles, with several hits and misses. If she stunned her audience as the demure Lolita in Parineeta, she wowed them with her sensuality in The Dirty Picture. The actress has broken stereotypes time and time again with her choice of roles, and her don’t-carish attitude about looks.

She has to fight numerous battles along the way, including defying societal expectations of the ’perfect’ figure, and her unique sense of style. In an interview, Vidya revealed that she had hormonal problems since childhood. Due to this, she would even try starving herself at points. She said, "I’ve had hormonal problems all my life. It’s probably because of the judgment I’ve carried around my body. When I was a teenager, people would tell me, ’You’ve got such a pretty face, why don’t you lose some weight?’ It’s not a nice thing to say to anyone. Be it a child or a grown-up. So, I’d starve myself, I’d go through crazy exercise regimens and lose weight. Then the hormonal issue would settle for a bit before it reared its head again."

She said that even at her thinnest, she felt fat. "Weight loss, weight gain, weight loss, weight gain was my pattern for as long as I can remember. Years ago, I stopped watching my shots on the monitor at shoots because I’d look at the monitor and be thinking, ’Am I looking fat?"

Vidya said that it has taken a lot of work to accept her body. She said, "When people tell me why don’t you start exercising, I want to say f**k you! How do you know I haven’t been exercising? Do you know how hard I exercise? Do you know what challenges I’ve been facing?

"Do you know that my hormonal problem has made it impossible for me to lose weight for years in between? Not just that, there was a period in between when the more I’d work out, the more I’d put on? People would insinuate that you must be eating unhealthy or that you’re lazy. And these things stick with you. It would anger me no end. I kept wanting people to stop judging me. But over time, I realised that people judge you/your body only if you do.

On the work front, it is reported that Vidya will star in the biopic of famous mathematician Shakuntala. It is also reported that Sanya Malhotra will play the role of her daughter in the film.