“Because I’m darker, I had issues as a teenager”, Priyanka Chopra opens up on her skin tone

Indians are obsessed with fair skin tone and dark skin colour is looked down upon. With advertising of various fairness creams, the perception in India is defined by the colour of your skin. Sadly, fair is considered as beautiful and dark as ugly. (Also Read: Priyanka Chopra reveals the funniest rumour she heard about herself)

But, our Bollywood brigade is here to change that notion about dark skin colours as we see that many of the successful and beautiful women ruling the film industry posses a slightly darker skin tone. From Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone to Bipasha Basu, we have many actresses who have proved that your skin colour doesn’t define your beauty and intelligence.

Now, actress Priyanka Chopra has featured on Allure magazine’s Diversity Issue amongst 41 other women. The special issue concentrates on women of colour who share their struggle stories and achievements. Priyanka spoke about her dark skin tone and the issues she faced because of it.

Said PeeCee, “My skin is as complicated as I am. When I was growing up, I didn’t see anyone on television who looked like me. Initially companies didn’t have colors that matched Asian or Indian skin. Because I’m darker, I had issues as a teenager—society pressure that a girl is prettier if she’s lighter. Pressure exist, and it’s on us to make those pressures not seem important to girls. I’ve achieved what I’ve achieved, and skin color has nothing to do with it—in fact it might have been an asset. I like the color of my skin very much. It’s so primitive to me that people are judged on the basis of the color of their skin. I mean, it’s skin. We all have it.”

You go girl! More power to you.

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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