Aishwarya Rai ... "She is a Bollywood actress and it is her duty to look good and fit." Aishwarya Rai ... "She is a Bollywood actress and it is her duty to look good and fit." Photo: Getty Images
The former Miss World is due to appear at the Cannes festival as a debate about her weight rages
Aishwarya Rai is no stranger to Cannes.
The Bollywood actor and former Miss World has attended the film festival 10 times, but her appearance on the red carpet next week is set to be her most talked about.
The cause of a controversy raging in India lies not with her latest film - Rai is there to promote a cosmetic brand rather than a new movie - but instead, bewilderingly, with recent photographs which suggest that, six months after giving birth to a baby girl, Rai has yet to regain her pre-pregnancy figure.
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