Taapsee Pannu opens up about her definition of beauty

Taapsee Pannu has opened up about her definition of beauty before she became wildly successful as an actress. The actress stands out with her curly hair and powerful features however say that she observed herself to be not quite the same as the actresses on the TV screen.

Taapsee was insecure about her unconventional looks and even went through a chemical treatment to fix her curly hair. She told Cosmopolitan magazine in an interview, “It was the opposite of everything I was. I didn’t have those big ‘doe eyes’; I didn’t have an elegant, small nose…I had this large, ‘royal nose’, as people call it. I didn’t have luscious lips or straight, silky hair—you know, the kind that actresses flipped around. I had curly hair, and I remember noticing that none of the actresses on television had hair that looked like mine. And so, while I was still in school, I visited a salon to get my hair chemically straightened—twice—using those terrible chemical treatments that were available at the time. And that completely ruined my hair! At first, I was so frustrated to have limp ends with curly bits growing on the top, and then I was horrified when my hair began falling.”

She added, “So yes, I did not fit the conventional parameters of beauty. And for many years, I tried to change myself, and failed miserably at it. Until finally I realised that I need to live with—and love—what I have…today, I understand how beautiful it is when you truly love the way you are.”