Tanvi Geetha Ravishankar is among a new crop of plus-size models who are daring to wear bikinis, flaunt their curves on Instagram and refuse to be body shamed.
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00:00Once, I was walking by the road and this aunty came and stopped me in Lokhandwala market.
00:08She just stopped me and she was like, beta you have such a pretty face, why don't you
00:12lose weight?
00:13Out of nowhere.
00:14Actually, the whole fact that random strangers think that it's okay to just come up to you
00:35and give advice, that is something that I find really ridiculous.
00:44Growing up, you realize that you need to be of a certain body shape, a certain size
00:51and a certain height to be a model.
01:00Some follower has taken my picture and has gone all the way to morph my picture, they've
01:08made my body thinner and they've sent me that picture saying that if you were this size
01:13you would look better.
01:18I think it's just this innate nature that I have of Kareena Kapoor from Jabhi Mein.
01:25Otherwise, I used to never feel looking at an actress or looking at a model on a magazine
01:35cover that, oh I should be this person, I should be like them, never.
01:48Even though India has opened its doors to plus size fashion and there are a lot of brands
01:54who have come in and who have started making clothes for the plus size category but I don't
02:04think that fashion brands and fashion curators are still very open to the idea of beauty
02:12coming in all shapes and sizes and hence they take thinner models and they take thinner
02:20girls to model for the plus size section.
02:32It's an easy attire to go and swim and be in the pool, it's just that for years I used
02:39to not find swimwear my size and it would be such a nerve-wracking thing to just go
02:48to the pool because I'd have to wear really bad old dad t-shirts or long tights to just
02:57enjoy in the pool and I'd see my peers looking so pretty in the pool and enjoying and having
03:03fun.
03:04Do you ever see guys who have a beer belly, who have anything, your dads, do you ever
03:09see them feeling shy about wearing shorts and entering the pool?
03:13They don't.
03:14So then why should we?
03:15Why are we so concerned about, oh what will they think, how will they feel I look?
03:20Just wear it.
03:21As I said, it's the uniform for the pool.
03:23You'd wear a uniform to school and go, you wouldn't think twice, right?
03:26So wear it to your uniform.