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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan became parents to daughter Aaradhya Bachchan in 2011. However, beyond the congratulatory messages, what garnered attention was the negativity surrounding Aishwarya’s weight gain following her pregnancy. The actor has spoken about this topic on multiple occasions, and had once revealed the ‘positive’ thing that came out of all the trolling she had faced.
In a 2015 interview with British journalist David Frost, Aishwarya was asked about body-shaming. The actor said, “It was natural in my case; that was the natural turn that my body took in terms of whether I gained weight or I had water retention or whatever else that goes with the space. I was comfortable, and that’s why I have been who I have been. I stepped out in public when I could take time out from my baby, and if I did think it was a big deal, I would have been in hiding or would have done something about it.”
Aishwarya noted the remarkable progress that science had made, and said that it’s possible to lose weight overnight. However, she stressed that she wasn’t interested in doing that.
She added, “I wasn’t disturbed by it. If people were, well, I guess I hope they enjoyed the drama because I was busy leading a very real life with my baby. I didn’t realise, but I think the most positive thing that came out of it for me was to have so many women come to me and say, ‘Thank you, you’ve actually gone and given so much confidence to so many of us who always believed that. I wasn’t on some mission to prove a point in this way or that. I was just being real.”
On the work front, Aishwarya was last seen in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan 2.
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