Swara Bhaskar says no to fairness cream ad

Swara Bhaskar was recently approached by a skin care brand, asking her to endorse a skin lightening production. Given that fairness creams are brands that pay celebrities big, anyone would have been tempted, but apparently, Swara turned down the brand.
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From what we hear, she refused to endorse anything that puts a value and thus discriminates based on one’s skin colour, taking a stand similar to what Nandita Das had done a few years ago.
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Confirming the same, Swara says, “This fair skin obsession has to be discouraged. It’s so regressive and problematic to put a value, negative or positive to skin colour. It's actually the seeds of racism and it only promotes low self esteem. For me, I believe in loving yourself just the way you are. Dusky, dark or wheatish, you are perfect, all I want to tell the girls is don’t change?”
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