Kareena Kapoor On Motherhood

Kareena Kapoor Khan believes in making choices that work for her rather than succumbing to the public opinion. The Bajrangi Bhaijaan star and her beau Saif Ali Khan welcomed their first born on December 20 last year and ever since have been under the limelight. It started off with Kareena working through her pregnancy and taking time to loser her post-pregnancy baby weight to the media speculating about how her son Taimur Ali Khan had been named after a tyrannical ruler. However, the B-Town heroine thinks otherwise.

In an interview with Bombay Times, Kareena says she is not pleased with the stories that are circulating about her, Saif Ali Khan and son Taimur. “Just because I’m elusive and my husband and I are not on social media talking about our emotions on an hourly basis, people take the liberty to put out stories about my child and me.”

She further added, “it was annoying to read reports about my fitness regimen and the way I’m losing weight.” The actor says that she has no responsibility to put her personal life out there. Hence, she would “not clarify how I plan to lose weight or what I do with my baby. I will not scream from rooftops about experiencing motherhood or how much I love Taimur. There’s always the pressure of being judged, no matter what you do. It’s about how you deal with it.”

Moreover, on motherhood she commented,  “Yes, I was on my feet a few days after the delivery, but it’s upsetting to have people judge you for it. No one has the right to comment on how I conduct myself or what sort of a mother I am. Everyone seems to have an opinion. Postpartum depression is not a must, right? It’s whimsical to generalise that every woman goes through that phase, almost making it sound like a norm. Every pregnancy and every mother’s journey with her child during those nine months and afterwards is different.”

According to the starlet, the public tends to generalise what women go through pre and post pregnancy,  “Post-partum depression, for example, isn’t a must, is it? It’s whimsical to generalise what women go through, almost making it sound like a norm. Every pregnancy and every mother’s journey with her child during those nine months and afterwards is different,” added Kareena. “But you can’t draw parallels! Nobody out there really knows me or what I’m feeling at a given time. How can they decide for me that I’m supposed to feel depressed or how I can step out 45 days? If I am spoken about like this, what would it be like for other women?”