Just when you thought I couldn’t blog on Bollywood’s starlets any more, it seems that yet another Indian actress is jumping on board the Size Zero Train (which leads to a very dark place, believe me.)
SAWF reports that Rani Mukerji “is now determined to address [her] ‘weightier’ issue.”
As the (rather callous, in my opinion) author states:
“She [Mukerji] may not be married but she sure looks married, by a quintessential Indian yardstick, her weight gain!… Inspired by Kareena Kapoor’s impressive return to a svelte body form, Rani has engaged Kareena’s instructor Payal Gidwani to repeat the magic for her. If a Kapoor …read more

Little did I know that I would become a Bollywood Blogger, but here is yet another story from India and the Middle East.
I came across an article on Zee News that suggests Indian actress Kareena Kapoor’s shrinking body is a kind of thinspiration to her colleagues/competition.  (Not familiar with Ms. Kapoor?  See previous Breaking the Mirror posts here and here.)
Says the Zee News Bureau (and remember that this is kind of tabloid-y material, so it’s certainly not gospel):
“…after the hot and sultry Kareena Kapoor flaunted her gorgeous size zero body in YRF’s ‘Tashan’, her contemporaries have taken notice of it… and are wanting to …read more

Last week, I blogged about Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor’s shrinking body. 
It seems that the disappearing star has made more news headlines thanks to a few recent fainting spells.
As the City Times, an offshoot of the Khaleej Times Online, reported yesterday, Ms. Kapoor’s size zero is causing quite a stir. 
Claiming to want to be like Victoria Beckham (a.k.a., Posh Spice), Kapoor says she isn’t starving herself.  In fact, she says:
“I am not thin.  The media makes me out to be.  I don’t diet.  One look at me and you know I am quite healthy.”
Not surprisingly, the media loves her:
“Ad Man Prahlad …read more

I’ve known many women from the country of India, and all seemed to have a completely rational sense of what a “normal” woman looks like.  Most had no problem with their curves, believing them to be beautiful, sexy, natural.
However, it would seem that the desire for a size zero has reached Bollywood.
According to two articles from CNN-IBN (which you can read here and here), Indian actress Kareena Kapoor went from voluptuous to scary skinny.  In the words of one author (Ginny Narula), Kapoor’s:
“…size zero might get her plump assignments but it certainly is sending out a wrong message to all the young girls out …read more