shobhaa des recent tweet fatshaming madhya pradeshs cop daulat ram jogawat simply goes on to tell the world that it is easy to body shame someone youre too thin or you have become fat are statements people are often greeted with by those around them and even strangers online the concept of being the right size which doesnt really exist has only put pressure on men and women to go to extreme measures to look the right size and with advent of social media free advice to lose weight put on weight or be less muscular often jams ones timeline while some have succumbed to it few others have come back strongly as did indocanadian stage actress and director mallika angela chaudhuri the actress who moved back to india for work faced several rejections as she was curvaceous an unfazed mallika hit back quite glamorously she teamed up with g venket ram to launch a calendar featuring men and women in all shapes and sizes as an answer body shamers here is mallika telling us why noconditionsapply when it comes to her being herselfbeing bodyshamedacross the world women are being bodyshamed mercilessly but things are better abroad i have done several stage plays in canada and i wanted to get into films i have still not tried in hollywood because age factor doesnt play a role there so i think there is more time for me to enter hollywood but in india you will get the right opportunities only when you are of a certain age so i chose to come to india especially south india as i felt it is the home of the actual art of filmmaking even commercial films are comparatively less dramatic than they are in bollywood moreover south indian women are curvy so i thought i wouldnt have a problem working here but i was in for a surprise when i began to give auditions down south i was asked by not one but many to lose weight i began exercising started opting for crazy diets but still people didnt find me fit enough to be a part of their film even if they say i dont fit the part i am ok but then they asked me to lose more weight which i didnt understand even when i was in canada when i was heavier i got to play central characters for there talent matters not your size ultimately i started working out so much that i ended up having a ligament tear that was when i realised that i was ruining body and my soul i kept cursing myself for having locked myself in this situation when they directorsads speak to me they talk in such manner that we actresses need to set examples be role models for people out there it took me a while to realise that one neednt be a role model if one had to go through so many physical changes i realised that i am