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7. Smrithi Rao (30) – Associate Manager, Myntra
Most of my so called ‘trauma’ was self induced. As a kid (growing up in the 90s), I was fascinated by the idea of fair skin. It was probably because you’d hear elders in the family or movies, television, school, colleges associate beauty with being fair. I’ve gone through a phase where I obsessed over being fair. So, this one time a friend mine in school suggested we sandpaper our skin to make it fair. So we made all necessary arrangements. But just in time my mom caught us. She sat me down and told me what I was about do would have been extremely harmful and achieving fairness should never be my end goal. It didn’t make a lot of sense then but in hindsight I am glad I got caught. Now I wish I could tell my younger self that it’s OK. It’s OK to be dark-skinned and I should focus on building relationships, a sense of humour, being a good person and on expressing myself better.
