00:00Meanwhile, let's quickly now shift focus from one story that we've been tracking very, very closely
00:05to the trolling, especially on social media where actor Katrina Kaif is concerned.
00:12A woman gains weight and suddenly the internet thinks it has the right to weigh in with an opinion.
00:18Katrina Kaif is the latest actor who is in the public eye to face a barrage of comments over her
00:25appearance
00:26after she was spotted at Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations with her husband, Vicky Kaushal.
00:31Well, right from Aishwarya Rai to Sonakshi Sinha to Huma Qureshi,
00:36women in the public eye have repeatedly been judged for their weight, age, changing bodies.
00:41So why does a woman's body still remain a public talking point?
00:46Here's more.
00:52Katrina Kaif went to a Ganesh Chaturthi celebration
00:55and the internet went after her body.
00:58Her crime?
00:59Apparently, she did not look the way they wanted her to.
01:04Katrina's rare public appearance with Vicky Kaushal at the Ambani Ganesh Chaturthi celebration
01:09quickly became fodder for trolls.
01:15Comments dissected her face, her weight, her body, even her clothes.
01:20Some compared her latest pictures with older images, putting her body under a microscope
01:26and picking apart every visible change.
01:31All because a woman who has gone through pregnancy and motherhood does not look exactly as she did before.
01:40And thankfully, fans weren't having it.
01:43They head back at the trolls.
01:45She's 40.
01:46She's a new mother.
01:47And her body does not need to meet your beauty standards.
01:52But here is the bigger problem.
01:54Katrina is not an exception.
01:58Aishwarya Rai has faced relentless scrutiny over her weight and ageing.
02:05Sonam Kapoor has spoken about trolls calling her too fat and questioning who would marry her.
02:12Sanakshi Sinha lost 30 kilos and still faced comments about her body.
02:19Huma Qureshi has spoken about being told her arms were too big to look good opposite a hero.
02:30Different women, same obsession.
02:33Too fat, too old.
02:36Too curvy, too much.
02:39And apparently, never just enough.
02:42Why do we behave as if a woman's body is public property?
02:47Why must she remain frozen at 20?
02:49Why is pregnancy expected to leave no mark?
02:53Why is ageing acceptable on a man but treated like a crime on a woman?
02:59This isn't concern or criticism.
03:02It is body policing.
03:03And maybe the most shocking part isn't that women are being judged.
03:08It's how comfortable people have become doing it.
03:12Bureau Report, India Today.
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