The actress recently made an appearance on Shilpa Shetty’s chat show ‘Shape of You’ where she opened up on how she had to work hard on her body weight to enter Bollywood. Recalling being called ‘too skinny’ in South and being asked to lose more weight in Bollywood, the actress told Shilpa, “When I debuted, Samantha (Ruth Prabhu) and Kajal (Aggarwal) were already stars, and they were fit. I think people became conscious about how they look on the screen because the content was being consumed everywhere. But when I debuted, I was told I am too thin. People would call me ‘stick’ and I would say ‘no’. But after two-three years I gave in also.”
“When I came to Mumbai and I started auditioning at the age of 20, I was told that I will have to lose weight because that was the standard of Bombay. But I didn’t have access or understanding since I was a kid. I lost 10 kg in 50 days, and I didn’t think I was 10 kg overweight, but I was,” Rakul added recalling how she transformed herself for her role in Luv Ranjan‘s ‘De De Pyaar De‘ also starring Ajay Devgn and Tabu.
Rakul will be soon seen in a comedy film titled ‘Chhatriwali’ wherein she plays the quality control head of a condom factory. She also has ‘Doctor G’ with Ayushmann Khurrana, ‘Thank God’ with Sidharth Malhotra, and ‘Mission Cinderella’ with Akshay Kumar. In South, she has Tamil films ‘Ayalaan’, ‘Indian 2′, and ’31 October Ladies Night’.
