Vidya Balan recalls getting ‘worst-dressed award,’ reveals she was scared to step outside her home

Actress Vidya Balan is known for her acting chops. Whether it is 'Kahaani', 'The Dirty Picture', 'Neeyat' or 'Bhool Bhulaiya', the diva has always been praised for her craft, but did you know there was a time when Vidya was even 'scared to step out of her house'. Yes, you heard that right. The actress recently talked to Masaba Gupta about her low phase on her podcast and recalled, 'I paid no attention to my appearance because I actually loathed myself. Initially, of course, everyone was in love with me and then suddenly, after about two or three years, when people started saying around the time I did two of these typically commercial films, people started saying, ‘Oh my God, this is not working. The films work, but she’s not working. She doesn’t fit the bill, and she’s overweight, and she’s so badly dressed.' Vidya further revealed how 'people took jibes at her' and what helped her come out of it. The actress said, 'I remember getting the worst-dressed award at a film award function, and I think I hit my lowest then. I was so scared to step out of the house, and there were actually people, there was no trolling those days because there was no social media, I was lucky there. But in the newspapers, people were taking jibes at me. Like they would be talking about anything, and suddenly they’d bring me in and my dressing sense.' The actress credited her sister, brother-in-law and designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee for re-instilling her confidence and added, 'My sister said, 'If it’s about clothes, you know what? What do you have designers for? Go to the right people who know how to dress you well.’ And my brother-in-law told me, he said, ‘Tell me honestly, what did you come here for?’ I said, ‘To be an actor.’ He said, ‘So you focus on that. Let the others do their job.’ I was so muddled, you know. But slowly, in the middle of all that, I think slowly, clarity began to emerge, some kind of clarity. I began to say, ‘Okay, I began to shed weight. I began to feel better.' For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.

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