BODY BEAUTIFUL

Adman Prahlad Kakkar takes a walk down history to explain how certain body types became the beauty norm. He says, “In the 1960s, gay people came out of the closet and took over the fashion industry. They then decided to take revenge on the straight people. They found a girl who looks exactly like a skinny boy and made her a supermodel of the era. Her name was Twiggy. Men are generally completely fascinated by women’s breasts and Twiggy left them confused. It started the era of ‘No T&A’ (t*ts and a*s) models. This went on for 30 years till in the late ’90s when Jennifer Lopez came and changed the trend. So, two different eras considered two different body types as beautiful. People must understand they both, Twiggy and JLo body types, are fraud. The normal is the one we see in various ancient structures where women had potbellies, thunder thighs and drooping breasts. In America, every second person is obese but they consider thin body type as the norm. At the end of the day, it’s about the individual and what he thinks and feels about himself. I am not good-looking but I have a great sense of humour. I wear what I wish but people think I am a fashionista because I wear different things. You can either improve or ruin your looks but you can’t run away from who you are. You can grow your paunch but then you might not get laid. If you are happy with it, where’s the problem? It’s more important and permanent to penetrate the mind than the body. Body keeps changing with time but what is in your mind lasts long. Once you have mental power, body types won’t matter. People will think of you as what you think of yourself.”