Anshula Kapoor On Bullying In School: Anshula Kapoor, daughter of film maker Boney Kapoor and sister of actor Arjun Kapoor, stays away from limelight. Like her brother and half-sisters Jhanvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor, she did not get into acting. She is a writer, body positivity and mental health advocate, entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. Recently Anshula has remembered her school days and told how she has been a victim of body shaming.
In a recent interview with Hotterfly, Anshula Kapoor revealed that children in school used to tease her by calling her elephant and hippopotamus. She says- ‘I was very introverted and shy. I was lacking confidence. I was a child who had a big body and I was always bullied.
Anshula Kapoor was a victim of body shaming
Anshula Kapoor says- ‘I was the tallest girl in the class, my body was also big. Then in the 90s my parents separated so I had no idea what was going on. The discussion turns to family values and what kind of upbringing there is. So I was trying to understand within myself what this new life is like.
‘Hippopotamus will speak, elephant will speak, bad looking one…’
Anshula further says that she used to cry when people teased her. On the question of what the children used to tease her by saying in school, Anshula says – ‘The same thing always happens, if you are calling someone fat, then only a little will be called fat. They will say hippopotamus, they will say elephant, they will say evil face. But I had my mother and my brothers for me.
This is how Mona raised her children after divorce from Boney Kapoor
During this, Anshula also talked about the divorce of her parents Boney Kapoor and Mouna Shourie. Talking about how his mother handled him after the divorce, he said, ‘When we moved into our own space, mother had to become a one-man army. She was a caring, loving, problem solver and breadwinner. She was both mother and father in one and it seemed as if she had ten hands to take care of us.