Actor Rubina Dilaik is calling out people for fat shaming her, and has no intention to mince her words. The actor, who recently took to social media to make a statement about it, tells us, “The idea was to tell others that don’t get pressured by these trolls.”

Dilaik shares that she was compelled to react only when the haters involved her family. “There are times when we need to tell people of their boundaries... They tag my parents, husband, sisters, and cousins that ‘Tell Rubina she is not working hard, she is looking old, has gained weight’. Nobody has given you the right to reach out to them,” she says.

She goes on to reveal that she has been dealing with body shaming for a long time. “Earlier, I’d beat myself up for gaining extra inches. Now, I have realised that I’m beautiful the way I am. And it is not coming from a place of complacency, ki maine bahut kuch achieve kar liya, ab toh main jaise bhi dhikhun mujhe koi fark nahi padta,” explains the 34-year-old.

Instead, she is giving herself time to heal from the after effects of Coronavirus. She contracted the virus in May this year. “My body had gone through a lot. I was bedridden for a month. Covid took almost everything out of my discipline and the kind of health I had maintained, and the first to take the beating are your nails, skin, hair. Even today, I have a tremendous hair fall. But I am recovering. It is a part of life... I need to show self-love. You have to love yourself even with those few kilos and bulges,” shares the actor, who was last seen in singer Inder Chahal’s music video for Shah Rukh Khan.

Blaming social media for distorted ideals of beauty, she has a message for all: “Your shape and size is a phase of your life. Do not lose your internal light. And it’s okay to be on a little heavier side.”