Katrina Kaif walked into the Ambani family's Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Mumbai this week for one of her first public appearances since giving birth in November 2025. Cameras loved her. The internet, predictably, did not extend the same courtesy.

Photos and clips from the event triggered a fresh round of postpartum body trolling, with comments picking apart everything from her frame to her face. It's the kind of scrutiny women in the public eye have absorbed for years, but this time someone pushed back loud enough to make news.

Television actress Sonarika Bhadoria, best known for playing Goddess Parvati in Devon Ke Dev Mahadev, posted on Instagram addressing the pile-on. She didn't tag Katrina, didn't name her either. "This isn't just about Katrina," she wrote. "It's about every mother judged while her body is still healing."

That line did the naming for her.

The post went further than a quick defence. Sonarika laid out, plainly, what a body goes through after childbirth: stretch marks, a softer stomach, changed breasts, hair loss, fatigue that doesn't lift for months. All of it normal, she said, and all of it routinely ignored by people who only see the after-photo and decide it needs fixing.

"Her body grew, carried and delivered a human being," she wrote. "It doesn't owe anyone an explanation for what it looks like afterwards."

She kept building on that through the post, that a postpartum body isn't a lesser version of whatever came before, that it's not something to apologise for, and that the discomfort strangers feel looking at it is entirely their problem to sit with.

"Your postpartum body is not your shame," she wrote. "It is your story, your strength, your proof."

Sonarika closed by addressing mothers directly. "You are a mother. You are powerful. You are worthy," she wrote, adding that these bodies aren't ruined, they're carrying proof of a chapter that cost more than most people will ever understand. She said society needs to stop teaching women to hate the bodies that carried their children and learn compassion instead.

Katrina hasn't addressed the trolling herself, and her team hasn't put out anything either. The Ganesh Chaturthi outing, with husband Vicky Kaushal alongside her, was already being read as a rare, welcome sighting after months out of the spotlight following the birth of her child. Whether she responds, or lets Sonarika's post do the talking for her, is the only part of this still open.