Bollywood sweetheart Deepika Padukone is set to welcome a new phase in her life soon. Deepika, who’s expecting her first baby with Ranveer Singh soon, has always been the one to make headlines. Recently, Deepika Padukone was spotted while completing her civil duty last week. The actress twinned with her husband while stepping out to vote in Mumbai, but all focus went on her baby bump she had rocked.

Celebs such as Alia Bhatt liked a journalist’s Instagram post, which was addressed to the trolls, “…you have no right to comment on any aspect of her life”

Aahana Kumra, who also endorsed the post in the comment, herself was trolled merely for standing up for herself some time back. While exiting an event, a fan asked her for a picture and just while getting clicked, put his hand around her waist. She was quick to tell him to not do that.

Talking to Hindustan Times, she says, “It’s her [Deepika] body! Why are people commenting on it? Every pregnant woman has a bump. This shows our industry’s solidarity. She didn’t want attention when she stepped out to exercise her constitutional right. When I had raised my voice, people trolled me on social media saying ‘yeh kaun hoti hai bolne wali’ It’s my body! I didn’t want someone touching me.”

Body shaming is a hit with the trolls, and actor Zareen Khan has dealt with it a lot. She believes the anonymity of social media has given ‘fake belief’ to some people that they have the authority to give their opinion on everything under the sun, “People frustrated with their realities find social media as a medium of venting out their frustrations, and celebs are easy targets. I have stopped reading such comments, but I have sympathy for the trolls who come and leave such nasty comments. In real life, they don’t have a voice.”

Adah Sharma faced abuses and vulgar threats for her films The Kerala Story and Bastar: The Naxal Story. She says, “Being an actor and especially after doing The Kerala Story… I feel once you are- a ‘celeb’, your ‘personal’ life is kind of open to one and all. The whole world becomes your family and is free to give their opinions.”

Another actor who found herself being attacked by trolls in the past was Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, who commented about Deepika, “When I am subjected to trolling, there are times when I ignore them but more often I speak up and people who find the argument right, join in. I’ve even filed a case in cyber cell once and got a resolution to my issue. In my opinion, its important to raise a voice so they know that the fight is not going to be that easy.”