Parineeti Chopra has lately been in the news for her amazing transformation. In a recent interview with DNA, Parineeti Chopras spoke about her weight loss and how she achieved this fit body.
About what made her lose weight
“It was a year ago, I have always wanted to lose weight. I have always been overweight throughout my life, but I never wanted to go the gym…I was not happy with the way I used to look. I didn’t have the confidence and the freedom to wear what I wanted. I was always restricted by clothes. I would see how I looked in photographs and on screen and constantly felt, ‘Oh my God, I wish I was looking better’. I always used to feel that and many people used to ask, ‘Are you comfortable with your body and are you trying to make a statement by your body type’. And I would be like, ‘Please, no, this is what I am’. I was really trying to lose weight, but I never went to the gym. I never worked out, I never did anything that would help me lose weight and then last year, in January, I realised that I was not doing any films for at least the next six months and I have time as I had taken time off to work on my house that I bought last year. I wanted to do it on my own so I took about eight or nine months off. And I said to myself, ‘I have time now and no excuses.’ So one day I just got up, booked a trainer and just started working out. And from February till June, I worked out like a maniac. I lost some weight.”
Her first public appearance after losing weight
“I made my first public appearance at IIFA and people were like ‘Oh f**k, you have lost a lot of weight.’..I wore a black strapless gown, tight-fitting but people were like ‘Oh there is a body shape’. I would always wear clothes that would cover me up. I was always camouflaging. Then June to November again I worked out very hard and made minimal public appearances because I really wanted to shock everyone. Before I knew it, 11 months ended and I released my photo shoot pics and said, ‘This is where I have reached and it’s taken me a year’. A year of working out, taking care of my food, not being able to eat what I wanted, to just be motivated for a year, you can imagine, I mean I was only working on myself literally. Day in and day out, I was working on myself.”
On feeling different
“I feel one hundred per cent like a different person. I’m more confident but I still look at my body and I’m like ‘okay, I still need to work on that’ but at least I can wear a sleeveless top if I want to. I can wear a dress if I want to, I can wear shorts if I want to… I have dropped so many sizes that I look like a different person and I did it healthy way, the right way. I did it at my own time and pace. I feel that I did it in a true and honest way and I feel like I deserve the body I have today.”
On her dressing sense
“I just think that I am more comfortable with my body and maybe that’s why I am able to wear clothes that are slightly more out there. I feel more confident but it’s not like my taste in clothes has changed. My taste was always the same, but I couldn’t wear those things earlier. If I wanted to wear a pair of shorts or a short skirt, I would be like I’d love to, but I don’t have the legs for it. Now at least I can. Earlier, I was constantly panned for my dressing sense. Unfortunately, I always used to agree with the fashion critics. I knew what they are saying was true and I blame myself for it.”
On Bollywood’s perfect body stereotype
“I don’t think that weight is associated with talent at all. In fact, I was never questioned about my talent… But I do think a certain image does exist and I think it is the fittest version of you that appeals. I think that if you can lose weight and can look your fittest, you must.”
About her diet and workout regimen
I have my moments where I just want to eat and I eat but then I feel guilty which I never used to feel earlier. In fact, I would get into the momentum of eating and then keep eating wrong. But now, when I eat one unhealthy meal, I zip my mouth for the next ten days. I have that responsibility in my head now. And I don’t even work out everyday. Maybe every other day or if I am not able to work out at all, for say, 10 days, I make sure that my diet is not wrong.
On gaining weight for a new role
“Now I feel scared because it’s taken me a long time. It’s taken me a year and I know what I have gone through in that year. It’s such a mind game for a person to really commit and do something which you don’t want to do. I think right now at least for the next four five films, no. Maybe one day when I forgive myself or something and I can let myself go, I will do it but right now it’s very tough for me to put on weight.”
About her Built That Way photo shoot
“I have always wanted to do a fitness shoot, I knew that whenever I achieved a certain body shape, I would do a shoot like that.”