With a career spanning over 16
years & over 5000 episodes to her credit, Aashka carved a niche for
herself on television with conventional & off beat roles alike.
Recently Aashka spoke on the prestigious Ted X
platform about beauty, beautification and how in this day and age the trend is of
embracing 'inner beauty' and the whole 'no filter' campaigns coming out by many
brands. But Aashka has boldly come out
and asked a question we are sure many young girls and actress would want to
ask. Why call a girl who wants to bake
her face as fake? Why are we taking
people's empowerment away from them?
Technology can help us with anything and everything today so then why
are we saying we shouldn't look better as beautification has exited for over a
thousand years.
Aashka says, "Make up has existed for over 7000
years and lipsticks for over 5000 years. Going back to humanity and the human race, we
as people have always wanted to look better.
There has to be demand in order to be supply. The thousands of beauty
applications wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the demand. And so again if a girl chooses to get
something done on her face, why do we call her 'plastic.' So many of my own contemporaries including
myself have gone through articles in the media where we've been said to 'have
gone under the knife,' become 'plastic,' etc.
God forbid somebody has to go under the knife, do we even know what it
is? We jump to conclusions without doing
proper research and understanding the process itself."
"And sadly the ones doing this are females as our
industry is dominated by female journalists.
We've forgotten the power of the pen as we first upload before and after
pictures calling someone plastic and then we ask the audience to leave comments
below. This fear of how you will be
labeled has made many women lie or hide what they've exactly done instead of
being able to come out and say, 'Yes I want to look better so I tried something
out,' says the actress.
Speaking about herself Aashka reveals, 'I've been
around for 16 years and I of course can not look the same. We are constantly aging and I wish I had a
sob story to tell you but believe me there is none. I wanted fuller lips and hence I decided to
go for them. But being asked about 'how
much plastic went into my lips' at a press conference with 20 people
around, is not the place I would like to speak about it and definitely not when
the tone that the question came in to me was so wrong! Yes I decided to do something on my face and
that's my choice. I am my own sculptor,
I am my own painter!"
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