Namita Thapar: Shark Tank India’s Namita Thapar opened up on being body shamed. She said she too has been a victim of body shaming. Sony Entertainment Television shared a promo video showing entrepreneurs pitching their clothing brand and saying they also make clothes for plus-sized people. The executive director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Namita asked the entrepreneurs why they didn’t make the brand exclusively for plus-sized people.
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Excusive brand for plus-sized women
Namita said, “Sach much India mein jo ye body shaming jise kehte hain, jo yeh ‘moti, moti’ bulate hain, uski target main bhi ban chuki hoon. Aapne aesa kyun nahi socha ki mein only plus size ke liye fashion banati hoon, na ki sab sizes ke liye (I have faced body shaming myself, have been called fat. Why did you not want to make an excusive brand for plus-sized women, instead of having all sizes).”
Earlier too Namita has spoken about being subjected to body shaming. She revealed in an interview a few months ago that as a teenager she was body shamed for being overweight and having facial hair.
Low self esteem
Namita had said she suffered from low esteem till age 21. “I was not like this when I was a kid. I was very overweight, I had a lot of facial hair and acne, I was body shamed a lot as a teenager… and I used to feel very ugly. No guy looked at me, it was me looking at the guys and having crushes, let’s just say that. When you’re body-shamed like that as a teenager, that leaves a lot of scars… I had a lot of facial hair and acne, and there was a guy in my class who’d call me ‘the girl with the moustache’ in Marathi.”
The pitcher responded to Namita’s question in Hindi, “The biggest problem in the plus size industry is that plus size people are treated like outcaste. We want them to feel included by not having a separate size chart or collection for them. They are a part of our entire range of collections,” said the piycher.
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