{"id":59256,"date":"2023-10-17T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/17\/so-many-indian-women-struggle-with-their-body-image-we-need-to-talk-about-why"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:00:04","slug":"so-many-indian-women-struggle-with-their-body-image-we-need-to-talk-about-why-pragya-agarwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59256","title":{"rendered":"So many Indian women struggle with their body image. We need to talk about why | Pragya Agarwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to blame Bollywood and the media for unrealistic expectations of beauty \u2013 but there are deeper social factors at work<\/p>\n<p>When Indian actor Aishwarya Rai, once Miss World, walked the runway at Paris fashion week for L\u2019Or\u00e9al this month, the online space and many Indian newspapers exploded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=biEk-HAE0EI\">comments about her weight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People took to social media to say she had \u201clet herself go\u201d, that she shouldn\u2019t have worn this or that, that she should have taken better care of herself. She faced similar comments about her \u201cbaby weight\u201d soon after giving birth to her daughter 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/17\/so-many-indian-women-struggle-with-their-body-image-we-need-to-talk-about-why\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to blame Bollywood and the media for unrealistic expectations of beauty \u2013 but there are deeper social factors at workWhen Indian actor Aishwarya Rai, once Miss World, walked the runway at Paris fashion week for L\u2019Or\u00e9al this month, the online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3990,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2678,59,346,408,62,78,744,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-image","category-global-development","category-health","category-health-wellbeing","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-mental-health","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256\/revisions\/59257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}