Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Sridevi and the media's obsession with her "thunder thighs"


Sridevi and the media's obsession with her "thunder thighs." 


Body shaming in the film industry has been rampant since the days of Tuntun in the early 1960s, but Sridevi got it in spades during the wild wild west days of her youth in Bollywood. The fad diets, the starvation, the fainting spells were on early... the little seeds planted in her head that slowly eradicated her luminescence and life. As #JusticeForSridevi continues to look for those to blame for her life interrupted, it was the culture of cinema, fandom and the misogyny of size zero worship that provoked her decision to stay thin at the expense of her health. Alas... 

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