Janhvi Kapoor opens up about the time she felt ‘sexualised’ after attending an event with her parents at 13, pics ended up on a ‘pornographic site’

Janhvi said that the constant objectification is a “very weird thing to navigate” but she has been navigating it for a long time now. “Again, I am saying this repeatedly because I think I am very apologetic about where I come from and I need to get over that. I am sure other people deal with it in a much more different sense but in a much more real and genuinely terrifying sense,” she said.

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Janhvi spoke about how she is perceived by others and said that while she does like to dress a certain way, she always finds herself second guessing her choices. “On one hand, I do like dressing a certain way and I have been brought up in a household where I don’t feel apologetic about it, where I don’t feel judged by it but I do understand that there is sentiment of a sort of character assassination that a girl faces when she dresses in a way that makes it seem like she is comfortable with her sexuality,” she said.

Janhvi said she is still navigating these thoughts and said that she “does not want to be perceived in a certain way” and “wants to be taken seriously”. “But it goes against my core values as a feminist also to second guess that if I wear this, people will think a certain way,” she said.

Janhvi will next be seen in Mr and Mrs Mahi with Rajkummar Rao.