New Delhi: While there is a general consensus when it comes to star kids' problems and the entire debate of nepotism, Janhvi Kapoor has opened up about growing up in today's paparazzi culture as a star kid. Janhvi Kapoor shared in an interview that paparazzi have always been part of her life, and people with or without permission have taken pictures of her and her sister Khushi Kapoor.
Things got worse, when Janhvi Kapoor found morphed pictures of herself on 'inappropriate, almost pornographic pages'. Opening up about growing up as a star kid in an interview with Newslaundry, Janhvi added there is an ,"influx of fake images, more so with today’s advanced AI (artificial intelligence)'.
"People see these manipulated images and assume they’re real. That deeply concerns me.” She added that she saw the negative effect of her internet presence when she was only 10. As a student of class 4, she shared that entered her school's computer lab one day to find paparazzi images of her on Yahoo's homepage, flashing across the computer screens of her classmates.
She told Newslaundry that she looked 'very uncomfortable' and not 'groomed' in the photos even as the headlines announced that she was 'being launched' in the film industry.
Janhvi Kapoor, who was last seen in 'Bawaal', shared that instead of making her popular, all this only 'alienated' her further. Moreover, her teachers 'changed towards her'. Janhvi said, "I don’t think they understood it so they started disliking me. I didn’t understand what was happening. My friends looked at me differently, they poked fun at me for not getting waxed... Many insinuated that I don’t have to work as I was famous anyway, weird taunts that I wouldn’t understand. Everyone kept asking me when I was leaving school and why I was on Yahoo. There was a lot of judgment, a lot of questioning of one’s self-worth from a very young age.”
In the same interaction, she added,