Vaani Kapoor burst onto the Bollywood scene in 2013 with Shuddh Desi Romance and, a decade later, she’s bravely naming a raw, still tender spot in her career. She’s fought her way in, yet the bruising moment when a film rolled on without her because her skin wasn’t light enough still shadows her in 2024. At 36, she laid it out without a shield. Vaani on body-shaming In a candid chat with News 18, she addressed the skinny-shaming with the same steadiness. “Never a face-to-face sting, but gossip travels. A director quietly crossed me off because I wasn’t ‘milky white’ enough for his lens.” When the interviewer pressed for the coping strategy, she shrugged a truth. The moment she recognised a director’s wish list didn’t match her self-worth, the film didn’t matter. “Let him track his ‘milky white’ muse. I’ll track a creative who rates talent. It’s old news, and for the record, he wasn’t even a Mumbai wallah,” she said, the sting already dulled down to scars.Vaani Kapoor: People love to tell me I'm too skinnyVaani opened up about the body-shaming that never seems to stop, especially the comments about her being too thin. “People insist I should gain weight, as if curvier shapes are the only acceptable kind of beauty. I shrug it off because I genuinely like myself the way I am.” She continued, “I’m healthy, I’m strong, and I won’t change for anyone else. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the comments are from real concern or just folks handing out unsolicited advice. Either way, I’m completely at peace with myself.” Right now she’s diving into her next role: a Netflix series called Mandala Murders, where she plays Rea Thomas, an investigator unraveling a string of mysterious deaths in the fictional town of Charandaspur.
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