When Masaba Gupta applied mom Neena Gupta's makeup in school to 'lighten skin'

Neena Gupta's daughter and fashion designer Masaba Gupta recalled when she was bullied for her physical appearance in school.

New Delhi: Fashion designer Masaba Gupta recently opened up on insecurities she harboured when she was a child and recalled being bullied for her physical appearance. She also talked about an incident when she wore her mother's foundation and went to school.

Speaking about the same, Masaba told Pinkvilla, "I remember when I would step out for school around in the 8th grade. What I did was I picked up my mom's foundation one day, I quietly went into her makeup kit and I said let me try her foundation and just make myself look lighter. I did that, and I obviously didn't realise that it's not the colour of my skin. And I went to school, and everyone has obviously figured it out."

She further said, "Because I used to never put on the light in my bathroom, it would be dark because I didn't want to look at my skin. So with the lights off, I would conceal my scars whatever I could see, and they were literally like against my dark skin, they were like white spots."

She revealed that due to the bullying she faced in school, she didn't like herself and wanted to be someone else.