While recovering from Covid 19, actress Rubina Dilaik put on some extra pounds. Her weight gain has now become a matter of great concern for some on the internet. The Shakti – Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki fame actress recently took to her Instagram account and shared a post for her “pseudo fans” where she clearly expressed her disappointment in them.
Rubina also talked about it in an interview with BT and shared, “Since the time I recovered from COVID this year, I had gained an inch here and there probably because of the steroid that I was on during COVID and everybody online stated judging me and pinning me down. The pseudo fans started messaging me and emailing me. But I was okay with their comments as I didn’t take it personally,”
She adds, “However, it started bothering me when they started messaging my family members – my mother, my father, my sister, my husband Abhinav (Shukla). They have been tagging them on posts like I need to hire a good PR or a manager. They commented a lot about my weight gain plus also about me not getting good photoshoots and my video songs not doing well. I don’t know why people think that an actress needs to have a certain figure in order to be sustainable in the industry! Or else they call us with words like behenji and aunties. All this has been happening for the past two months and that is why I thought of writing a post on this. A few even tagged and messaged my cousins online which read that I am unemployed because I am sitting and eating at home and gaining weight. I wanted to tell those people to draw a line and let me live my life the way I want to.”
When asked if Indians are obsessed with weight gains, especially if it is of an actress, Rubina says, “I might be wrong here, but what I have observed is that a lot of people get a sense of insecurity when they gain weight. They don’t then feel comfortable in their own skin. Unfortunately, people have started putting everybody in one box of a certain measurement. The idea of beauty is so much ruined in the minds of our internet users. So many people today starve themselves to look a certain way. A body transformation can also be a by-product of a healthy lifestyle, people I think should focus there more. I will never starve to be a certain size. It will happen naturally.”