For
a
long
time,
many
actors
and
actresses
indulged
in
promoting
skin
lightening
products
and
earned
a
huge
chunk
of
moolah
for
the
same.
Priyanka
Chopra
is
no
different.
When
Priyanka
became
a
household
name
in
India,
the
actress
endorsed
fairness
creams.
However,
when
she
moved
to
Hollywood,
she
realised
how
wrong
she
was
to
do
that.
In
her
recent
tete-a-tete
with
Marie
Claire
magazine,
Priyanka
confessed
that
she
still
regrets
endorsing
fairness
creams
and
revealed
that
how
it
is
still
a
normal
practice
in
South
Asia.
The
Bajirao
Mastani
actress
said,
"[Skin
lightening]
was
so
normalized
in
South
Asia;
it's
such
a
large
industry
that
everyone
was
doing
it.
In
fact,
doing
it
is
still
a
check
[mark]
when
you
are
a
female
actor,
but
it's
awful.
And
it
was
awful
for
me,
for
a
little
girl
who
used
to
put
talcum-powder
cream
on
my
face
because
I
believed
that
dark
skin
was
not
pretty."
In
2015
also,
while
speaking
to
journalist
Barkha
Dutt,
Priyanka
Chopra
had
admitted
to
feeling
bad
about
endorsing
fairness
creams
and
said,
"I
felt
really
bad
about
it,
that's
why
I
stopped
doing
it.
All
my
cousins
are
gora-chitta
(fair)
I
was
the
one
who
turned
out
dusky
because
my
dad
is
dusky.
Just
for
fun,
my
Punjabi
family
would
call
me
'kaali,
kaali,
kaali'.
At
13,
I
wanted
to
put
fairness
creams
and
wanted
my
complexion
changed."
Meanwhile,
Priyanka
is
gung-ho
about
her
book
Unfinished,
which
chronicles
her
journey
from
facing
racism
during
her
teenage
years
in
the
US
to
expanding
her
horizon
in
Hollywood.
"Bullying
happens
to
kids
and
adults.
It
happens
with
positions
of
power,
and
we've
all
seen
that
abused
in
multiple
ways,"
asserted
Priyanka,
while
speaking
to
Marie
Claire.
For
the
unversed,
Unfinished
will
be
out
on
February
9,
2021.