Shraddha Kapoor

Shraddha Kapoor: Thank you so much, everybody, everyone out there for making it. Thank you guys so much for braving the rains and making it over here. I know, I mean, I've come from Juhu as well, so it's quite a drive here.

So thank you all so much for being here. And what a welcome, wow. With all that music and everything, thank you so much.

I don't know where to start. I mean, I've been waiting for this day, I'll be honest. I've been waiting for this day since, The Body Shop officially signed me, and I was like, "That day is going to be a really special day for me."

I'll tell you why as well, because the first time I ever heard or came to even know about words like sustainability, the environment, kindness, love, all of these words, for the first time that I ever even knew what it meant was when I was a little girl. Now, who introduced me to those words? I will tell you my parents.

The first time ever that I knew anything about kindness, about being good to the environment, about imbibing sustainable practices, about lending a helping hand, about just being better in anything that I do, was because of my parents when I was a little girl.

So when you have a brand which imbibes all these values that are instilled in children from such a small age, and you have a brand who represents this in their practices, who has it as their principle, as their core values, it's something that you feel like, "Okay, this is what I want to be. This is what I strive to be. This is something that I want to be better at."

So for me, when The Body Shop India came, The Body Shop came to India for the first time, I was like, "Okay, there's no need now for me to wait for my parents to travel abroad, for me to give them the list, of the things that I want," 'cause now we have it here in India, finally. And I have a store, in Juhu.

Yeah. So for me, I was like, Body Shop Representative: "You know, I don't need to wait for it any longer." So, Can I say something? Sure. You know, even before she became a brand ambassador to The Body Shop, we knew Shraddha because she used to be jogging every morning in Juhu.

And she used to jog into a, into our store in her, in her track pants, and she used to rake up all the products, put them into a bag, and jog off. So that's how we knew Shraddha. And our store teams love her because she's always there in the store, and that's much before we even met her, officially.

So that's Shraddha for you. Yes. And really, the store teams love her because she's there, she's chatting with them, and she's you know, exchanging notes on, why she likes something. So a very natural fit for us.

When we when I when we met her personally, she was really jumping with joy, I can say, when we met her at your home. And it was really a wonderful feeling to meet her and to meet a person who's so. Actually, whatever she said is totally correct for us as brand people.