[2][6] According to MensXP, "her turn on the MTV show Girls on Top in 2016 earned her a fan base of young women passionately relating to her words".
[3] In 2016, she posted what The Indian Express described as a "bold photoshoot" and an "attempt at breaking stereotypes in the society and highlighting sensitive issues pertaining to women" on her Instagram account,[7][4][2] followed by a five-part series of photos and essays.
[8] In 2018, she posted additional photos that India Today reported were created because Chopra "wanted women and men to celebrate their flaws as nobody is perfect".
[2] As a model, she was featured in MensXP, on the November 2018 magazine cover and in a collection titled, "MeToo: Sona Mohapatra, Kubbra Sait & Saloni Chopra".
[24][25][26] In response, Chopra publicly thanked her supporters, including Akshay Kumar, who had asked the Housefull 4 producers to "cancel the shoot until further investigation", and she expressed regret for not speaking out sooner.
"[31] Bisht reported that another panelist, general secretary of the Cine and Television Artists Association (CINTAA) Sushant Singh, was "aback by the fact that there were next to zero abusive messages he received while, on another side, these women survivors were being trolled consistently".