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Shinde, who has worked with several stars of the industry, including Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Shraddha Kapoor, Taapsee Pannu and Kiara Advani, on Tuesday took to Instagram to share about her journey of coming out publicly as a transwoman.
“Irrespective of your origin, there will always be something that reminds you of your childhood. For me, it takes me back to the kind of loneliness that aches, to pressures that pushed me into solitude and the chaos of confusion that grew every moment,” Shinde wrote.
The designer said she was shamed by her peers during her school and college days as she was “different” from others.
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Shinde said it was only in her 20s when she joined the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), she found the courage “to accept my truth.”
“I truly bloomed. I spent the next few years believing that I was attracted to men because I was gay, but it was only six years ago that I finally accepted to myself, and today that I accept to you. I’m not a gay man. I am a transwoman,” she said in her note.
Shinde also posted pictures of her new look and said her new name means a “meaningful life.”
Several of Shinde’s friends and colleagues from the industry, including Shruti Haasan, Aditi Rao Hydari, Esha Gupta and Shraddha Srinath, congratulated her.
“So happy to read this. Up and up from here, Saisha,” Parineeti Chopra commented on Shinde’s post.