NO Cosmo’s FAT More TALK Campaign
SARAH JANE DIAS
“‘Fat talk’ is a growing epidemic. A few years ago, I had an accident, and put on 12 kilos because of the medication and its side-effects. When I suddenly lost weight after rigorous exercise, I saw how people around me reacted. Everyone thought to regain my slimmer shape, I had gone on a crash diet—it was so demeaning! Women do get bitchy about weight and pass obnoxious comments about each other. I eat healthy, in fact I eat every two hours, but I am also hooked on to my work outs and never miss a day of exercise.”
IRA DUBEY Y
“We should sto op reinforcing ide eas about body image an nd Size Zero. It encou urages disorders like bulimia and anorexia and goes against a wom man’s natural body. Indian womenw have always been curvy, accept it! ‘Fat t talk’ amongst wo omen will always be th here, but at least we sho ould be conscious enoughe not
to encourage it.”i
DEEPIKA PADUKONE
“Being thin is often misunderstood as being fit. A thin person is not necessarily healthy. So I strongly suggest women listen to their bodies carefully and follow what it says. Be proactive about not putting on kilos, follow a diet chart, exercise and above all, think positive and be kind towards yours—and other women’s—bodies.”
PRIYANK A CHOPRA
healthy is most “I think being end of the important, and at the down to body day, it all boils a figure and not what confidence, scale. I’ve the weighing you see on in the a big believer always been fact that more than weight, it’s about attitude.”
KALKI KOECHLIN
“We don’t need to ban the word ‘fat’, we need to ban using it in a negative and harmful way. Honestly, I did feel the pressure to be thin—in school, every girl wanted to be super skinny! Women tend to overcriticise other women’s bodies, it is part of their genes, you can’t fight it! But it is important to stop focusing on their own and other women’s ‘fat’ because a body type is a body type, and one has to learn to be happy with one’s body. We’re all going to get old and wrinkly some day, so there better be more to us than just how we look.”