Rekha indian actress plastic surgery

Nostalgia has a way of making everything more beautiful. Ask any actress today which actresses from the yesteryears they admire most and invariably, Rekha is high up on that list.

Yet, 40 years ago, when Rekha made her Bollywood debut with Saawan Bhadon (), she was actually considered both ugly and unattractive.

The Rekha we first saw on screen was nothing like the diva that would eventually rule the roost in Bollywood.

She was dark, overweight and ungainly in comparison to her contemporaries. Her looks didn’t stop the films she starred in from doing well and she has hits like Raampur Ka Lakshman (), Kahani Kismat Ki (), and Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye () to her credit, but at the time, she was making headlines for all the wrong reasons (like supposedly trying to commit suicide by eating upma that was contaminated by a dead cockroach).

It also didn’t help her that many of her co-