MUMBAI: Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza has raised her voice against the ‘beauty standards’ set by society and has urged the people to ‘stop the beauty test’.
Sharing an advertisement of a personal care brand, which reflects the challenges an average girl faces due to dark complexion, the tennis star said, “At 8 years of age, I heard people tell my parents ‘Don’t let her play out in the sun if she gets dark who will marry her.”
“How I wish I could go back in time and show this film then and ask aakhir kitni khoobsurati kaafi hain? (After all, how much beauty is enough?),” Sania Mirza questioned.
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She further wrote, “I am glad I stepped out in the sun because it made me who I am. The tan lines, the biceps, not meeting societal beauty standards, it was totally worth it.”
The Indian tennis champion urged people to speak up against false beauty standards saying, “As a daughter of this country, I urge each one of us – parents, brothers, daughters, future-in-laws, to speak up and step up.”
Earlier, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas has also said that she regretted promoting skin-whitening creams. “Skin lightening was so normalized in South Asia; it’s such a large industry that everyone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check mark when you are a female actor, but it’s awful,” she added.
