Updated : Jun 26, 2020, 03:55 PM IST | Edited by : Aishwarya Vasudevan
Bipasha started by writing, "From the time I was growing up I heard this always, "Bonnie is darker than Soni. She is a little dusky na?" Even though my mother is a dusky beauty and I look a lot like her. I never knew why that would be a discussion by distant relatives when I was a kid. Soon at 15/16 I started modelling and then I won the supermodel contest... all newspapers read... a dusky girl from Kolkata is the winner. I wondered again why Dusky is my first adjective??? Then I went to New York and Paris to work as a model and I realised my skin colour was exotic there and I got more work and attention because of it. Another discovery of mine."
The Corporate actor further wrote about how the adjective 'dusky' stuck with her even when she started doing movies in Hindi. Bipasha went on to say, "Once I came back into India and film offers started... and finally I did my first film and from an absolute Ajnabee to Hindi film industry... I suddenly was accepted and loved. But the adjective stayed which I started liking and loving by then. DUSKY girl wows the audiences in her debut film. In most of my articles for all the work I did, my duskiness seemed to be the main discussion... it attributed to my sex appeal. And sexy in Bollywood started getting accepted widely. I never really understood this... To me, sexy is the personality, not just the colour of your skin... why my skin colour only sets me apart from the conventional actresses at that time. But that's the way it was. I didn't see much of difference but I guess people did. There was a strong mindset of Beauty and how an actress should look and behave. I was DIFFERENT as it was pointed out. Didn't stop me from being and doing all that I loved."
Bipasha added, "Well, you see I was confident and proud of who I was from childhood. My skin colour didn't define me... even though I love it and wouldn't want it to be any different ever. Many skincare endorsements with loads of money were offered to me in the last 18 years (some were very tempting)... but I stuck to my principle always."
The stunning actor concluded by writing, "All this needs to stop. This wrong dream that we are selling... that only fair is lovely and beautiful when the majority of the country is brown-skinned. It's a deep-rooted stigma. It's a mammoth step from the brand... and other brands should follow in the same footsteps soon."
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 "'Sexy is personality, not just colour of your skin': Bipasha Basu pens about being tagged as 'dusky' beauty")
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