Sunny Leone was recently declared as one of the 100 Most Influential Women by BBC.
Leone, who had a thriving career in po*n, has given up the vocation for a Bollywood career but continues to run a production company, SunLust Pictures.
Now, in an interview with the BBC, Leone has said that she faces a lot of sexism in the Indian film industry, which wasn't the case when she did po*n.
She said, "I was never questioned about who I was, about my sexuality, or my integrity as a woman. Sexism on sets? Not once. But people here have to compromise. I haven't. But it isn't the same here... people have to compromise on their integrity and it's a horrible feeling."
She said that she's still judged for her past.
"It's something that I created. I know what I am getting into. I know when I am hired, people want me to show off. They want the Sunny Leone shot. But that's the image I created, so I am okay with it."
She added that sometimes people say inappropriate and rude things to me without realizing what they're saying.
"I don't think of objectification as a bad word. We objectify things, people, brands all the time. For me, it's selling the brand Sunny Leone," she said.
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