Updated On: 17 August, 2018 08:00 PM IST | | mid-day online desk
With a career spanning over 16 years and over 5000 episodes to her credit, Aashka Goradia carved a niche for herself on television with conventional and offbeat roles alike.

Ashka Goradia
Recently, Aashka spoke on the prestigious Ted X platform about beauty, beautification and how in this day and age the trend of embracing 'inner beauty' and the whole 'no filter' campaigns coming out by many brands. But Aashka has boldly come out and asked a question we are sure many young girls and actress would want to ask. Why call a girl who wants to bake her face as fake? Why are we taking people's empowerment away from them?
Aashka says, "Make up has existed for over 7000 years and lipsticks for over 5000 years. Going back to humanity and the human race, we as people have always wanted to look better. There has to be demand in order to be supply. The thousands of beauty applications wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the demand. And so again if a girl chooses to get something done on her face, why do we call her 'plastic.' So many of my own contemporaries including myself have gone through articles in the media where we've been said to 'have gone under the knife,' become 'plastic,' etc. God forbid somebody has to go under the knife, do we even know what it is? We jump to conclusions without doing proper research and understanding the process itself."