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Venus Skin Consciousness Campaign6 Images There are many forces acting against Jess Bhamra, Parminder Nagra’s character in 2001’s Bend It Like Beckham, conspiring to stop her playing football. Obstacles like access and representation – Jess has never heard of a women’s football team at the start of the film and by the end she has to move to America to even get the possibility of playing in a professional league. There’s her culture and family, her parents not keen on having a daughter who runs around muddy fields playing football all day. And then there’s the scars on her leg from the severe burns she got as a child, which make her feel ashamed to wear her kit shorts in front...