Bipasha Basu opens on being defined as dusky, says she rejected many lucrative skin care endorsements

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Hindustan Unilever announced recently that it will drop the word “fair” from its Fair & Lovely range of products. They are doing that in order to make its portfolio ‘more inclusive’. In a long post on Instagram, Bipasha Basu reacted to it and wrote about her experience on being called dusky all her life. She wrote, “From the time I was growing up I heard this always,”Bonnie is darker than Soni.She is little dusky na?"Even though my mother is a dusky beauty and I look a lot like her.I never knew why that would be a discussion by distant relatives when I was a kid. Soon at 15/ 16 I started modelling and then I won the supermodel contest ... all newspapers read ... dusky girl from Kolkata is the winner.I wondered again why Dusky is my first adjective ???" Also Read - International Yoga Day 2020: Malaika Arora, Shilpa Shetty and other Bollywood celebs who practice yoga to stay fit and healthy

She added, “Then I went to New York and Paris to work as a model and I realised my skin colour was exotic there and I got more work and attention because of it. Another discovery of mine:) Once I came back into India and film offers started... and finally I did my first film and from an absolute Ajnabee to Hindi film industry ...I suddenly was accepted and loved. But the adjective stayed which I started liking and loving by then.DUSKY girl wows the audiences in her debut film.” Also Read - What! Abhishek Bachchan finally REVEALS how he felt working with Hrithik Roshan and future wife Aishwarya Rai in Dhoom 2

The actress also spoke about how sexy was associated with her for the colour of her skin. “In most of my articles for all the work I did,my duskiness seemed to be the main discussion.. it attributed to my sex appeal apparently.And sexy in Bollywood started getting accepted widely.I never really understood this... To me sexy is the personality not just the colour of your skin...why my skin colour only sets me apart from the conventional actresses at that time.But that’s the way it was.I didn’t really see much of difference but I guess people did.There was a strong mindset of Beauty and how an actress should look and behave.I was DIFFERENT as it was pointed out. Didn’t really stop me from being and doing all that I loved.” Also Read - Sorry, ladies! Rana Daggubati just proposed Miheeka Bajaj and she said 'Yes'

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