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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Size Zero
Publication: Hindustan Times, Edition: Mumbai, Supplement: Brunch, Journalist: Bureau, Page No: 6, Location: Top-Right, Width(cms): 5, Height(cms): 28
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W E DIDN'T care when the international me­dia got hysterical over Victoria Beckham's new size -zero. But now that our own Ka-reena Kapoor is a size zero, we can't stop talking about it.
While we debate the pros and cons of Kareena's frame, she has inspired a lot of us to get wafer thin. Curvaceous Katrina Kapoor and even Priyanka Chopra are rumoured to be working out to get thin. And Amrita Arora, a close friend of Kareena, has got downright skinny. She said in an inter­view, "Bebo got me into yoga and today Priya from Bharat Thakur's school of yoga teach­es me for an hour everyday"
Healthy or not, the fact is that the vital statistics of women in India, once a country that cele­brated curves, are dwindling. Women do not want to be round­ed and fleshy anymore. They prefer being lean and taut. Says Shan Haider, personal trainer with Talwalkars, a chain of fit­ness centres across India, "Women do not want to be voluptuous. Till a year back, the frame Bipasha had in Jism was acceptable, but not anymore."
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