Shaheen Bhatt Was Once Thrown Out Of A Picture Because She Was Dark And Alia-Pooja Were Fair

Shaheen Bhatt has shared how she was once made to feel that she was less fair as compared to her sisters, Alia Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt, during a photo shoot. She also talks about mental health issues.

Alia Bhatt is one of most successful young stars in Bollywood, her elder sister Shaheen Bhatt makes news every once in a while. Alia Bhatt is one of most successful young stars in Bollywood, her elder sister Shaheen Bhatt makes news every once in a while.

In a recent interview with film critic Rajeev Masand, she opened up about her struggle with depression all through her teenage years, her suicidal thoughts, body shaming and how once a photographer asked her to step aside at a photoshoot with sisters Alia and Pooja Bhatt.

Shaheen said: “It is making me uncomfortable right now, the fact that you are talking about it, is making be uncomfortable. I think women in general suffer from a lot of body image and lot of things we are told by media, by ourselves, it is problem in general. Self worth… is definitely… shame is definitely a cause for depression, it can be for any reason.

With women, body image tends to be also be one of the causes for shame. Many other causes as well. Shame is central. I wish I make people understand that shame is central to any feeling of depression and any feeling of sadness and it stops you from being vulnerable, she added.

She says, My self-worth was definitely affected as I was at an age where the seeds of that were being sown in me. I was just trying to figure out who I was and obviously when something like this happens to you at such an unsure and uncertain time in your life, it sort of reinforces that and sets in stone in a way.”

Rajeev had pointed out an excerpt from Shaheen’s book Never Been (Un)Happier where Shaheen has described how during the course of the photoshoot, the photographer asked her to leave the picture as the other two were fair, cute and how the two looked similar, while she was “dark” and a “little overweight”. She had written how “till date, looking at those pictures cripples” her emotionally.

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