Bollywood actor Ileana D’Cruz shared a self appreciating post on Instagram on Thursday revealing her list of insecurities and how she does not care about them anymore.
Sharing a black-and-white picture of herself in a two-piece swimsuit, the actor wrote, “I’ve always worried about how I looked.”
On all the body image issues she ever had D’Cruz wrote, “I’ve worried my hips are too wide, my thighs too wobbly, my waist not narrow enough, my tummy not flat enough, my boobs not big enough, my butt too big, my arms too jiggly, nose not straight enough, lips not full enough…..”
She continued, “Not realising I was never meant to be perfect. I was meant to be beautifully flawed. Different. Quirky. Unique. Every scar, every bump, every ‘flaw’ just made me, me. My own kind of beautiful.”
Sending the message of body positivity to the world she concluded, ”
That’s why I’ve stopped. Stopped trying to conform to the world’s ideals of what’s meant to be beautiful. I’ve stopped trying so hard to fit in. Why should I?? When I was born to stand out.”
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The actor’s powerful and impactful caption received a lot of praise by her fans, who liked the post more than 700,000 times.
In 2017, D’Cruz stated that she had contemplated suicide in the past due to her Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
