{"id":199259,"date":"2025-12-23T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199259\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:16:08","slug":"madhuri-dixit-recalls-being-told-to-fix-her-nose-early-in-her-career-dont-say-this-is-how-a-heroine-should-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199259\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhuri Dixit recalls being told to fix her nose early in her career: ‘Don\u2019t say this is how a heroine should look’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Updated on: Dec 23, 2025 08:06 am IST <\/p>\n

Madhuri Dixit shared her experiences with being body-shamed early on in her career, and what lessons she drew from it. <\/p>\n

Madhuri Dixit<\/a> was widely regarded as one of the most successful and liked actors of her generation. One might find it hard to believe that even she was subjected to unsolicited remarks about her appearance early in her career. In a new interview, the veteran actor revealed that she received comments about her nose and appearance before she achieved her first hit.<\/p>\n

\"Madhuri Madhuri Dixit began her acting career with supporting roles in the 80s. Madhuri on being body shamed<\/p>\n

In a conversation with Nayandeep Rakshit <\/a>for his YouTube channel, Madhuri revealed that she would get comments on her appearance early in her career in the mid-1980s. \u201cA lot of people told me when I had just started\u2014do this, how is your nose, your this, your that. I used to go and say, \u2018Mom, they\u2019re saying this.\u2019 And my mom would say, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it. Once you have a successful movie, that\u2019s the very thing they\u2019ll love about you.\u2019\u201d Madhuri admitted that she found her mother\u2019s conviction hard to believe, but it all changed once Tezaab was released and became a hit. Madhur became an overnight sensation.<\/p>\n

The actor recalled that all the unsolicited advice eventually came to an end. \u201cAfter Tezaab, nobody said anything about being skinny or being this or that. People just accepted me for who I am. Even today, I tell the new girls\u2014Don\u2019t try to be in a mould. Don\u2019t say this is how a heroine should look. If you\u2019re different, that\u2019s a uniqueness you have. Play on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madhuri’s recent work<\/p>\n

Madhuri was most recently seen in Mrs Deshpande, a web series directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, which sees her play a serial killer. The show is currently streaming on JioHotstar. The actor spoke about playing a dark role in the show in a conversation with HT, saying she was thankful to directors like Nagesh who give her the opportunity to do different things at this stage in her career.<\/p>\n

\"\" News<\/a> \/ Entertainment<\/a> \/ Bollywood<\/a> \/ Madhuri Dixit recalls being told to fix her nose early in her career: ‘Don\u2019t say this is how a heroine should look’ <\/p>\n

See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated on: Dec 23, 2025 08:06 am IST Madhuri Dixit shared her experiences with being body-shamed early on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4513,146,85,46,41546,1556,397,112563],"class_list":{"0":"post-199259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-body-shaming","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-madhuri","13":"tag-madhuri-dixit","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-tezaab-hit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}