I wasn’t advising Katrina or being nasty: Diandra

Model Diandra Soares (right) faced flak on social media after her Facebook post urging women to age gracefully and not opt for plastic surgery, went viral. With the post, Diandra had put up a picture of actor Katrina Kaif (below) from a recent event. It seems that didn’t go down well with many, who slammed her for being nasty and taking a sly dig at Katrina. Refuting these claims, Diandra retorts, “I did not write ‘Dear Katrina’, I wrote ‘Dear women’ because I am addressing a much larger cause. Also, I don’t have to be sly about it.” However, the very next day, her post was nowhere to be seen on her Facebook wall. “I haven’t taken down anything. My friends can [still] see it; all other unimportant people cannot,” Diandra tells us. Though Diandra, in her post had made it clear that it was in no way a “hate post for Katrina”, she says, most people just missed the whole point she was trying to make. “Sadly, nobody has the intelligence to understand the message. There wasn’t any negativity or nasty stuff in that and I definitely wasn’t advising her.” Diandra, who herself is a make-up artist, says that she was trying to reach out to young women who fall prey to artificial means to look beautiful. “I was simply trying to bring a very real issue to the forefront. At the end of the day people look up to us actors and models,” adds Diandra.

Unfortunately, the actual issue or subject matter is lost in translation, because this country is simply blinded by Bollywood... it’s the holy grail DIANDRA SOARES, MODEL

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