India, June 1 -- Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu has spoken candidly about the pressure to achieve a perfectly flat midriff, revealing that she once pushed herself excessively in pursuit of an ideal body image. She urged fans to embrace their bodies and avoid putting themselves through extreme measures merely for social media-perfect photographs.

On Sunday, Taapsee took to Instagram stories and spoke about the obsession with having a flat midriff and said, "I remember I had this obsession because while growing up, I was extremely fit, but I never understood why the lower belly fat always stayed. I worked out intensely almost to an extent that I overpushed myself, and rightly said, when you overpush yourself, it rings an alarm in your brain...