Actress Patralekhaa has slammed paparazzi pages for body-shaming her, adding that she recently gave birth and has been juggling two film projects as a producer at the same time.
“What’s happened to me is that I have just given birth! Yes, I have gained weight, which seems like an unnatural phenomenon to you all. I have not sat and eaten a mountain — I just delivered a baby and produced two films simultaneously, which are not easy jobs,” she wrote on her Instagram Story on Friday.
“If I could, I would not be this way. But that’s how my body has reacted to pregnancy. For God’s sake, please learn to be a little kind,” she concluded.
The backlash comes after videos of Patralekhaa at the screening of Netflix’s Toaster, which stars her husband Rajkummar Rao and marks her debut as a producer, went viral online.
Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Parvati, on their fourth wedding anniversary in November last year. The couple, who tied the knot on November 15, 2021, after more than a decade of dating, have previously worked together on projects such as CityLights and the series Bose: Dead/Alive.
Up next, Patralekhaa is set to produce Raftaar and will also be seen as an actress in Suryast.