"I think you don't have to be size zero to prove yourself...To connect with the audience. It should be like the audience should enjoy the film. And if you can provide that enjoyment with the way you are then nothing like it," Huma told PTI.
"In fact, I am paired opposite someone who is very tiny, Nawaz is a little short and tiny...He is size zero," she said.
"In school I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat," Huma quipped.
But she says, these days filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap have a different thinking and are not obsessed with weight issues.
"I remember during an ad shoot Anurag said to me that you are doing my film, and I was wondering do we really get films so easily. I thought you have to struggle and all. But he kept his word and offered me 'Gangs of Wasseypur'. All this is like a boon," the actor said.
"When the film began, one thing that I noticed about Anurag is that he is one such a filmmaker who is not obsessed about weight. He is like ok with two to three kgs here and there.
"People like him are more concerned about whether you can perform, your eye expression, body language and with all that can you convince and move the audience. I think that is far more important than having a 28 or 26 inch size," she said. MORE