Freida Pinto Mr Skin

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Enlarge Image Freida Pinto revealed Monday that she’s pregnant and expecting her first baby with Cory Tran. Instagram

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The 36-year-old actress is pregnant and expecting her first child fiancé Cory Tran.
“Baby Tran, coming this Fall! ” Pinto posted to Instagram on Monday along with two baby bump photos.
Tran, a photographer, posted the same pictures — which show him cradling the “Slumdog Millionaire” star’s belly — on his Instagram page.
A plethora Pinto’s famous followers congratulated the expectant parents after their big announcement.
“Mazel!!!!” Katie Couric commented on Pinto’s post alongside four heart emojis.
“Best news. Blessed lil baby,” gushed Leslie Odom Jr. — Pinto’s co-star in the 2019 film “Only” — while Kate Bosworth commented, “Ah!!!! Soooooooo happy for you babe congrats beautiful mama .”
New mom Mandy Moore also sent her well wishes to Pinto.
“Congrats lady!!! ,” the “This Is Us” actress wrote on the post.
Pinto and Tran, who have been romantically linked since 2017, announced their engagement in November 2019.
“It all makes sense now. Life makes sense, the world makes sense, the past tears and trials make sense, what wise old lovers said about love makes sense, where I am makes sense and where I want to go completely makes sense,” Pinto posted to Instagram at the time.
“You my love are just the most beautiful creation to have ever walked into my life. And you are here to stay,” she continued. “Well, I am making you stay. Ha! All my love with all my heart.”
Prior to her relationship with Tran, Pinto dated her “Slumdog Millionaire” co-star Dev Patel from 2008 to 2014.

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These are some new photos of Freida Pinto in New York City yesterday, where she’s been making the promotional rounds for The Rise of the Planet of the Apes . James Franco has been around too, but I feel like Freida has been more visible, perhaps because James is too busy being an ARTIST to promote the film, or perhaps because Freida seems happy to promote her work, unlike James. I absolutely hate that terrible pea sh-t dress, but I love the vivid purple-aubergine dress.
In a recent interview with The Independent , Frieda talked about something that is rather taboo for Indian actresses to discuss – the obsession, amongst Indian women, for lighter skin. The entire Independent interview is interesting – go here to read it – but I was fascinated by Freida’s thoughts:
At college in her mid-teens, Pinto had realised that theatre and literature were her “calling”. To earn some money, she began modelling. The well-mannered, inquisitive youngster found it easy working with photographers, but it was far from satisfying. Nor was the advertising work which followed.
“There were some very silly, stupid auditions that I had to go for. Like, there’s this girl who walks into college and nobody’s paying any attention to her because she is not using this particular cream – some kind of moisturiser or fairness cream, which I’m completely against. Then she’d put on the cream and all the boys would turn to her. And, I was like, ‘Arrgh, this is so bloody cheesy!’ If I ever got shortlisted for any of those parts I’d feel this sudden burden: ‘Oh my God, if I do this, they’ll pay me and I’ll earn my pocket money – but then it’s gonna be history.’ Some of my ads are now on YouTube and it’s just so embarrassing.”
Embarrassing, yes, but she can laugh about them. “There is a silly Wrigley chewing-gum ad you should check out. It’s so stupid. This guy pops a gum in his mouth and I fall from a tree on to his bike! Then he’s got a girl!” Pinto cracks up with laughter at the memory. “So from doing cheesy stuff like that to doing something as fulfilling as Miral – I think I’ve come a long way.”
She has, but Pinto can’t, and won’t, forget where she has come from. She despairs at the popularity of those “fairness creams” in Southeast Asia – bleaching potions to lighten the skin. “It’s completely wrong medically – and culturally, of course, because it’s giving people the wrong idea. My friend who’s a doctor told me that she’d have parents come in with kids who were three years old, saying, ‘Do something – I want my baby to be fair.’ It’s just this thing that people [in India] are so fascinated by white skin. There’s a lot of people there who are naturally really pale. But the whole idea that you have to be fair – without naming actors, but there are actors who admit it – the fairer you are, the easier it is.”
Even within Bollywood? “Oh yeah, absolutely. The amount of pancake cream on your face is ridiculous. I don’t think it is required, by the way. If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.”
But Pinto herself is a bright beacon for Indian actors. Slumdog Millionaire showed that European and American audiences could be receptive to non-Western stories. And with her nonstop career since, this proudly Indian actress has succeeded in Hollywood without having to compromise by changing her looks or the way she speaks.
“Yeah,” she nods, “but it’s so funny. I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don’t really have is also very American in a way. They love tanning! Why the hell are you tanning that much? Then in my country people want a fairer skin tone! It’s just crazy. So when I was that Indian export that went to America and people were wanting that natural tan – which I don’t really have to go through tanning [to acquire] – they were excited to include something in their culture, into their film industry, that was not really there already. Or not properly or appropriately represented. So I just feel that this was a change.
“And I embrace the change and am hopeful it brings in more actors from Southeast Asia, without [them] having to do stereotypical roles. To be able to do something like Rise of the Planet of the Apes that is not concentrating on ethnicity – I’m so glad that is changing in the West.”
I remember the first time one of my Indian aunts told me that I had the “right” kind of complexion, because I’m mixed, my skin is much lighter than that of my Indian father’s. My Indian relatives always remark on it now – I have lightest-skin of anyone in my family. It’s a weird thing to remark on, but Frieda is right, there is a lot of emphasis on lighter skin amongst Indians. Personally, I prefer when I’m darker, and I’m totally not above going to a tanning bed to get some color. I can feel my aunts gasping from here.

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No offense to anyone but sometimes in interviews with white actresses there is such a lack of depth because all they talk about are their fat hips and their acting careers.
It’s fascinating to hear about cultural issues discussed frankly.
Kaiser you’re Indian? Wow. Had no idea. I think skin bleaching is in every culture. I know in Africa, women bleach because, white or light is right. Its unfortunate but that’s how some view lite skin. The lighter you are, the more wealthy\pretty you appear. I love Frieda, I wonder if she’s still datin Dev.
This totally jives with the marriage ads I’ve seen in the Times of India. Skin colour is often described as caramel or wheatish.
I work at an American based company that has an office near New Delhi. A co-worker of mine went to the India office and said she was shocked, as she walked through the market place, by how many people asked her to stop to take their picture with her. She doesn’t look like someone famous, it was having a picture taken with a white person – that was her conclusion, anyway, and reading this backs up that theory.
Frieda is right – it’s an odd thing how cultures who are naturally fair tan to get a darker skin tone, yet those who are naturally dark yearn to be more fair. I had no idea there were creams and products like that in SE Asia – my naivete shows again.
I love the darnkness of Indian skin. I lay on the beach to get that dark.
I lived in Asia for five years and I was shocked at all the whitening products and the lengths women would go to in order to avoid even the slightest tan. When I was in India, it was like every other commercial was for a whitening product. Then again, I’m half Mexican, half Norwegian and my Norwegian grandmother is obsessed with making sure I never tan too much.
kasier its the same in the Latino culture and i find it totally bizarre and ridiculous. I get a lot of compliments on how light my son is and i immediately put those people in the category of those i prefer not associate with. idiots. I am glad she is being so open about how dumb the practice is of wanting to be lighter and the comparison of Americans wanting to be tan.
This business of light skin being “desirable” seems to be more than the influence of the white race as societies evolved. It seems more than just poor colored people subliminally influenced by the image of rich English women, as if the wealth and place in society is a direct result of skin color. It all seems more primal or rooted in a genetic perspective.
Please, please, please everyone of every race let us become enlightened. All skin tones are beautiful and all skin tones have imperfections. As a white person, I can say I am envious of a beautiful white smile radiating from dark skin.
Sadly, the same thing goes on in the black community. Fair skin is praised while darker skin is shunned like it’s something ugly. There are hundreds of bleaching creams out there that are geared toward black people.
Seems to be a universal problem for many darker skinned cultures. I’m primarily African American and it’s an issue for us as well. My immediate family is of varied tones so my mom was very diligent in teaching us that all tones are beautiful and skin color was of no importance.
I am lighter skinned so I’ve gotten comments from Indian friends and even noticed their bias against my darker skinned African American
friends. Really sad that we can’t get past such superficial issues.
Everybody wants what they don’t have!
And I’m fascinated by her. Where the hell did she get that dress in the first pic? She is gorgeous…
And white skin isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be! Especially if you have olive undertones like I do… I look ok in the summer, but in the winter I just look ill.
But anyway. All of you – embrace what you have!
Rita, actually, it’s not so. This reverence of lighter skin has been present in cultures since ancient times when white Europeans were still living in huts while civilizations to the south and East flourished. If you were a lighter skinned female back then, you’d be considered more desirable than your darker peers, since fair skin in woman made them look more, oh, ‘pure’. Apparently all that hasn’t changed in the span of 8000 and more years.
And you know what, guys? No matter how much we would try to preach that “all skin colors are beautiful”, people will still have their preferences and bias as long as humans have a sex drive. To treat someone as inferior because of their skin color is horrible, but to simply not like one skin color as much as the other is all right. Because how is not liking, say, pale white any worse than not liking Kellan Lutz’s serial killer eyes? Both born traits.
Goddamn. Kellan Lutz has gotten to my head.
what evidence is your research based on? lol. Humans have always been drawn to something that is extraordinary, so in a tribe of brown skinned individuals, an olive skinned one will stand out and be considered more attractive… You should review your anthropological skills!
Did you know that the native americans think the word Indian is a insult..They see it as a black person sees being called the N word.
Met a guy in college from India he could not believe though I was just a teenager I was not married already. Just because my skin was white.
In the past if you had fair skin it meant that you didn’t have to work in the fields, and so fair skin has become an indicator of wealth. It is now built-in in the general Asia aesthetics.
I’m not obsessed with “becoming” fair since I was born relatively pale. As a Taiwanese, I will never be as pale as someone that comes from, let’s say, Sweden, but I stay out of the sun and prefer to keep my skin tone fair. I don’t like tanning for two reasons, ageing and skin cancer.
I do think some people over here get a bit crazy, and a lot of mothers avoid soy sauce or coffee during pregnancy. Instead, they consume loads of tofu and soymilk, believing that it will give the children with paler skin.
someone had a great comment about this once that in western society it is the tanning and exercising that have replaced “whiteness” as a class distinction. As someone above said does grow out of class distinctions, if you work in the field you get sun, etc and the British Empire definitely exported those ideas around the world.So i don’t think there’s any “genetic” predisposition. I don’t think evolutionarily early human men or women would have thought “ah fair skin, their offspring will thrive” just no correlation. but yeah i’m white and lived in Korea for 2 years, had a hell of time trying to find make up that didn’t make me look like a “Twilight” extra.
I visited an Indian friend’s family once and they kept commenting on and praising my skin to the point were it was really awkward and uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong, I love a compliment (which is a pleasant deviation from the usual “get a tan!”) but the way they did it was basically compare me to my friend and berate her for not doing enough to whiten her skin! I was pretty shocked….
Its the same for Latins or any non-white culture. My father is a dark latino, my mother is a white latina and people always say things to me and my sister about how lucky we are for getting our mothers skin. Its SO weird now that I think about it but its said like no big deal and you get desensitized to skin color talk.
I went to India and I saw plenty of those ads. They sounds like “white is beautiful”. Kind of perverse. I am glad someone is talking about it, the indians I talked to were just referring to it as make-up not whitening cream.
i like how she managed to bring up a potentially sensitive subject with such class. she is ridiculously gorgeous and she’s clearly got some personality to go with her looks. is she still dating dev??
Skin Bleaching is one thing, the tanning industry in the US for white people is a multi-million dollar business. What i found was sad, that in visiting South Korea last year, Many of the young girls, particularly thr well-off families, would have eye surgery to make thier eyes wider. This is a complete overhaul of thier face. To me this is very sad to not appreciate the beauty of every race and culture.
The Hispanics seem to have a whole shade system. I was born pale as hell like my dad (but with hazel instead of green eyes). I’m a burn, peel then tan kind of girl. My mom’s coloring is similar to Freida’s. My dad’s similar to Pierce Brosnan’s.
I spent my childhood getting yelled at and chased with the sunblock because I was “ruining my beautiful white skin.” I ruined it alright – not the color (although it’s not really white any more). I ruined it by being out in the sun so much that it caused mottled brown spots which I’m slowly getting rid of with glycolic peels. My face is lighter again (I’m not going to bother with my arms – maybe the chest) but not its old white self yet however, here is the kicker – I’m feeling positively vampiric, I think I need to audition for Twilight. I was staring at those photos of Jason Momoa yesterday and instead of “OMG! he is hot” I was like “OMG I miss my skin color!”
I’m half Native American and half white, and growing up I got a lot more attention and praise for my skin and features that my full-blooded cousins didn’t get. My grandmother used to discourage tanning also. It’s such a bummer, and it’s so pointless. Trying to completely change your skin is such a futile effort, you know?
After bleaching my hair through most of high school and college I feel so much more confidant now with my natural black color and tanner skin. This is how I am meant to look! We (brown chicks) have to stop paying attention to the notion that we have to be Scandinavian-looking to be beautiful. I wish I’d seen more faces like Freida’s growing up.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean when I say it seems to be more than just the influence of a successful white culture. It seems rooted in our primal psyche, even more so than a religious purity. Look at the white robes and such of ancient times. In all ancient tribes an albino animal is considered special. Perhaps it is the fact that man came from a colored culture and white skin was the exception and thus “special”. This perspective goes way back.
Here here for the annoying white skin creams! My mom would get upset if I got a tan in the summer as I am naturally very pale Asian and people always remarked on how white my skin is but I hated it! I always wanted to get a gorgeous tan.
You can’t beat people over the head as to what YOU think to be the most beautiful skin tone. People have a right to their own perception of beauty. I love pale skin with blond/ginger hair. So beautiful…but it doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the beauty of other skin tones.
@esblondie bronzer – embrace it, use it. Love it. I look so vampire since I stopped tanning. Bronzer helps a lot. It gets rid of that sickly glow that light olive skin has.
From what I understand, Freida Pinto is considered a joke in India. This is because Indians feel that she always talks bad about India to foreigners and very little about what’s good.
Anyways, she makes a typical mistake, in that fairness does not equal whiteness. Wanting to be fair i
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