On Shark Tank India, Namita Thapar recalls being body-shamed: ‘Moti, moti bulate hain…’

 

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The pitcher answered,  “The biggest problem in the plus-size industry is that plus-size people are treated like outcast. We want them to feel included by not having a separate size chart or collection for them. They are a part of our entire range of collections.”

This isn’t the first time that Namita has spoken about being attacked for her appearance. Last year, during a conversation with Chetan Bhagat on his Deeptalk podcast, she recalled how she used to be bullied for being overweight and having a lot of facial hair and acne. “I was body shamed a lot as a teenager… and I used to feel very ugly, ” she said, adding, “No guy looked at me, it was me looking at the guys and having crushes, let’s just say that. When you’re body-shamed like that as a teenager, that leaves a lot of scars. I had a lot of facial hair and acne, and there was a guy in my class who’d call me ‘the girl with the moustache’ in Marathi.”