Insta: @monica.wadwa

Website: monica-wadwa.com 

Blog: Letters To Myself

Hi Lady, can you tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m finding this question harder and harder the older I get as I feel like there are so many things I’m exploring and working on and changing. But in short I’m an actress, blogger and podcaster and I work at Soho House doing members relations. I’m passionate about spirituality, art, self-development and travelling – one day I want to have a job that encompasses all those things!

What ladies do you look up to?

Wow- that’s a super hard question. The list would be too long! I’ve got female role models, both living and deceased, who are/ were actresses, activists, spiritual speakers and writers. But I think I’ll have to be a bit cliché and say my mum. She’s been the most incredible teacher for me all my life. Big up Mumma Wadwa! 

How important do you think it is for us ladies to support each other?

10000000%! Soooo pro women supporting women. I really do just think women are such incredible, powerful and compassionate beings. We’ve had men holding us down throughout so much of history and that’s finally changing, so let’s not hinder that through bringing each other down! Women need to remember that another woman’s beauty, intelligence, wit, kindness etc etc is not and can never detract from yours. And if I’m getting really spiritual, I really do believe we’re all One, so causing someone else suffering or putting someone else down, whether man, woman or animal, is really causing yourself pain as well.

Do you have any advice for anyone feeling less than ladylike?

What does it even mean to be ladylike? I feel that that’s a man-made stereotype which we should break away from anyway so GREAT if you feel less than ladylike! I don’t think any woman should ever aspire to fit into any particular mould. In the wise words of my very camp old dance teacher, ‘You do you hunni!’

And finally your song of the week, plz…

I’m more of a podcast gal at the moment so I’m not as up to date with music as I’d like, but I’m loving 6LACK’s recent album ‘East Atlanta Love Letter’ and, it’s an oldie but, I still often have ‘Saw you for the first time’ by Laurence Guy, on repeat.