Despite being touched up to perfection for the spotlight, celebs still get trolled for their looks. Recently, actress Hiba Bukhari opened up about being body-shamed.
The Deewangi actress appeared on Ahsan Khan’s celebrity talkshow ‘Time Out With Ahsan Khan‘ alongside her husband, Arez Ahmed.
Hiba’s performance in the drama serial Fitoor opposite Faysal Qureshi was actually not as pleasant as fans thought it was. She shared how she received a polarising response over her physical appearance. The starlet played a college-going girl in the drama serial.
Many netizens made mean comments about Hiba Bukhari being too old for the part and even body-shamed her. Hiba said;
“While I was doing Fitoor, I was going through a bad phase, very bad, by the end of it I was disturbed, …. Its not just that I only get praised, I get criticized too.”
Further elaborating on the body shaming, and how a little weight gain triggered the trolling.
“Actually I gained a little weight during it, and then people around me and on social media started talking.”
She shared how stress had caused her to stress eat and gain some five to six kilograms in a month.
“I got stressed out, I got into depression and I started eating more and gained 5-6 Kgs in a month because of that depression.”
Hiba Bukhari even stated that people that talk about not body shaming don’t practice what they preach.
“People who preach on social media to not body shame people actually do it a lot themselves.”
In this day and age, all of us deal with negativity, body shaming, and trolling online. Share your personal story in the comment section.
