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Dia Mirza is undoubtedly one of the strongest women from the industry. A class actress, a beauty pageant winner and a humanitarian, Dia dons several hats with equal aplomb. But her journey so far hasn't been just easy and smooth. While her parents separated when we were young, she tackled several social taboos from the very beginning. She reveals that both sets of parents taught her to be independent and rise above societal pressures. In this conversation on Woman Up, she also opens about the blatant sexism that she had to face as a heroine, the kind of ridiculous rejections that she battled right at the start of her career and also discussed how people's behavior around her changed post her separation from her husband. All this and more, in a freewheeling chat.