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Actress Diana Penty, who made her Bollywood debut with Cocktail, recently got candid during an interview and recalled her early days of being catcalled. She opened up about her early struggles of travelling through Mumbai locals and shared how people used to elbow her. The Detective Sherdil actress also mentioned how people used to body shame her for being too skinny, and expressed that those comments made her conscious as a child.

Diana Penty shared her experience during a conversation with Hauterrfly on being touched inappropriately and said, "I think every girl in Bombay has gone through this. To go to college, St Xavier’s, I used to take the train - the central line from Byculla to VT - and then walk to college. There’s catcalling, and people try to elbow you. It became a part of daily life. I was a very shy, underconfident, conscious and awkward girl. I would go into a shell. It would scare me. I didn’t have the confidence to elbow back."

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While pouring her heart out, the actress also mentioned facing body shaming and said, "It scarred me. You’re a child, and if people keep telling you, ‘Oh, you’re so skinny, you don’t eat?’ And some aunties would go up to my mother and say this. She used to get so irritated—like why wouldn’t I feed my child? As a child, you start becoming conscious of the fact that you’re too skinny. It was awful."

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The actress also recalled a time when her mother took her to a pediatric dietician and shared that she was asked to eat 6 bananas a day, but could only manage to eat 4. Diana told the interviewer that all her life, she has tried to gain weight. She never wore sleeveless and always tried layering up her clothes.

Diana Penty also opened up about being in a relationship with Harsh Sagar, a diamond merchant, for over a decade and expressed her view on marriage. The actress is currently seen in Diljit Dosanjh’s Detective Sherdil, which also stars actors like Boman Irani, Chunky Panday, and Banita Sandhu in lead roles.