Ileana D’Cruz, who just featured in The Big Bull, has spoken up about her encounters with fat acceptance. However, did you know that the performer has struggled with it since she was a child? The actress recently opened up about her ordeal, stating that “random people” had been remarking on her body when she was just 12 years old. She recalls those days like it was yesterday, Ileana said in a Bollywood Bubble interview. It’s odd since it’s a deeply engrained wound. Since she was 12 years old, she has been exposed to objectifying women. She’d only recently hit puberty and was starting to develop. “Weird comments are being hurled at you. And others are commenting on your physique, saying things like, ‘Oh my God, why is your butt so big?’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean?'”
Speaking of the harrowing incident, Ileana stated that such words have remained with her like a “deeply entrenched scar” that she has been carrying with her for years.
“Visitors believe everything is OK until random people start talking nasty things about you and you start believing them.” So she thinks it’s a deep scar that she has been carrying for a long time. It takes a lot of work on the inside to persuade oneself that what they’re actually saying is inconsequential. The way you feel about yourself is a critical aspect. This is something she tells herself on a daily basis.
At the outset of her career, Ileana D’Cruz struggled with Body Dysmorphic Disorder and despair. In an advertisement from 2017, the actress talked about her experience. She revealed, “I went from being cheerful to being extremely unhappy around three years ago, and I had no idea what it was.” ‘What if she just ended things now?’ was the most reassuring notion. And she gladly acknowledged that something is wrong.
When she was in her teens, she was a quiet, self-conscious person. She was regularly complimented on her body type. Her addiction began when she was fifteen years old. Her life’s ambition has always been to be accepted by everyone. She believes that’s what she most desired. She never figured it out, she continued.
Ileana also claimed in the same year that she had “suicidal ideas” at one time in her life. She used to be depressed and unhappy all of the time, but she didn’t realize she had melancholy and Body Dysmorphic Disorder until she sought therapy. She even had suicidal thoughts and wanted to end everything at one point. All of that changed, though, once she embraced herself and what she was going through. She believes it is the first step in overcoming depression, in 2017, Ileana told IANS.
