Wamiqa Gabbi, who stole the spotlight in Jubilee, says that she is expected to look a certain way, and she sometimes succumbs to these pressures. The actress, who was in Delhi recently, shares that she is asked to lose weight all the time but her character in Jubilee taught her to be confident and believe in her talent.

She asks, "Aapko lagta hai main moti hoon? Mujhe roz aise feel karwaya jata hai ki aur patle hona hai. Toh aapko khud lagne lag jata hai ki mujh mein problem kya hai? Aise-aise keede jo dimag mein daale jate hain woh pareshan karte hain. We tell in our films - shaql par nahi dil pe jao. We (the film industry) tell something else to the public in our films, and we follow something else in our real life."

Wamiqa says, “What’s it about body weight and figure? The way you are and the way you talk to people, that’s more important. But jaise-jaise kaam badh raha hai, aur perfect ho jao, ek bhi kami nahi honi chahiye.”

How does she deal with it? “There are days when it doesn’t matter, and then there are days when I promise myself – okay, I will not eat, I will work out. But there are many other bigger issues in life,” she says.

Wamiqa says earlier she used to feel bad for missing her workout even for one day, and would have a hard time getting motivated to resume. “Now I feel main 15 din baad bhi workout kar rahi hoon toh woh bhi count hota hai. Maine khud ko maaf karna shuru kar diya hai. I can’t silence people, but I can control how their words affect me.”

In Jubilee, Wamiqa plays Niloufer Qureshi, an aspiring actor from the 1940s-50s. She is ambitious and confident, and critics praised how the character had the body type of actresses from that era. “Niloufer made me feel really confident. Usko nahi fark padta tha ki woh moti hai. She knew that people loved her for who she was. She taught me that if you are proud of yourself, what people say don’t matter.”