Yami Gautam Shares Her Struggle As A Teenager With Her Physical Appearance

Yami Gautam is one of the most talented actresses in Bollywood, who always manages who arrest audiences’ attention with her performances. The actress can be presently seen in Maddock Films’ latest outing Bala (2019) wherein she plays a TikTok star obsessed with everything beautiful. She has been receiving overwhelming response for her performance in the content-driven movie which also stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar in principal roles.

The ones who have seen the film would know that Bala talks about self-acceptance and questions the yardstick of beauty set by society. Talking to a renowned newswire, Yami Gautam opened up about her struggle as a teenager with her personality and physical appearance.

“During my growing-up days, I was very skinny and everyone would tell me I was weak because I was tiny. Being a Punjabi from Chandigarh, I was surrounded by girls who were wide-structured and, in comparison, I would look weak. I ate everything to gain weight but I did not realize my body structure was narrow. Once my mother noticed such a thing was upsetting me, she said, ‘Never ever think that you are weak just because you are skinny. You are a strong girl. One day, you will see how strong and beautiful you are,” Yami Gautam told the newswire.

The actress went on to add that she was once an introvert child and had stage fear. “I remember I had to recite a poem in school. I went in prepared but when I was on stage in front of a room full of audience, I froze. I was nervous and God knows how I just uttered those lines and ran away. That was me as a grown-up child. So, yes, I had to work hard to overcome such a thing, because as an actor I am supposed to be free, I should not have inhibitions. Most of the feedback I have received for Bala is that I was very uninhibited,” the actress concluded.