Keerthy Suresh addresses bodyshaming

Keerthy Suresh came up with a video as a powerful retort to bodyshaming. In the video she is seen working out in a gym.

She posted “High time I shared this (smiling emoji),” she wrote, beginning her note by saying that fitness has been her ‘biggest teacher’. “Back in 2013 when I started as an actor, I was a clueless kid. Like a lot of people, I thought the gym just wasn’t for me. I ignored the basics my body actually needed,” she wrote, adding, “After Mahanati in 2018, during a break, I thought, “Why not try?”

The actor says that she lost 10 kg in 9 months after that and was proud until people called her ‘weak’ and claimed that she’d had ‘surgeries’. “I’ve always kept things natural, even with my face, so hearing that stung a wee bit because all my hard work was put under a knife and ouch!” she wrote. She also stated that apart from the gym, she turned to yoga in 2020, which changed ‘everything’ for her.

She continued “I am proud of seeing myself here today and yet I have people coming to me and giving me opinions on how they liked me better when I was a plumpy kid. When you are plumpy they want you to be fit and when you are thin they just want you plumpy. I wonder how the world works sometimes,”

She added “I’ve had a physical and mental setback recently. I have been MIA for the last few months, but this journey reminds me: if at some point I have to break, pause, or stop, I will; but I’ll never give up! Bring it on,”