OHMYGOSSIP — Shobna Gulati doesn’t want to “look a certain way”.
The 54-year-old actress – who played Sunita Alahan in ‘Coronation Street’ – finds her grey hair “empowering” as she has learned to embrace growing older.
Speaking to Platinum magazine, she said: “I don’t want to have to look a certain way, or how people perceive I ought to look. I think having my grey hair is deeply empowering because when people say to me, ‘Oh, you don’t look your age,’ I can say, ‘Well, I am.’
“Ours is a youth-obsessed society, but the good news is that I’ve watched a lot of European thrillers and dramas during lockdown and it seems that being female of a certain age and experience is represented on screen. Whatever you look like is OK; faces move and grey hair is present, both of which I’ve allowed myself to do.”
Shobna has also shared how she deals with her mental health and how receiving therapy helped her support herself instead of waiting for someone to “rescue” her.
She also found motivation from Maya Angelou’s poem ‘Still I Rise’, which inspired her to think about what happens when people “rise from the ashes”.
Shobna added: “I have the ability to spiral down and down and down, so in order to mitigate that I’ve tried to tackle it by looking at what happens when you rise from the ashes.”
The former soap star had a tough year after saying goodbye to her mother in 2019 following her battle with dementia.
However, Shobna believes her mum’s diagnosis gave her the opportunity to get to know her on a deeper level.
Shobna explained: “‘It’s really interesting. Once you’re sitting in a room with someone with dementia they remember different things that perhaps you didn’t know as people.
“Instead of seeing your mum, you see a woman and I was fascinated. It was as if she was unlocking a file of her past.”
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