Kareena Kapoor Khan on parenting: “I will form my own rules”
Bollywood’s��Begum��Kareena Kapoor Khan who is expecting her first-child with husband Saif Ali Khan in December, has shared her excitement on becoming a mother, however feels she has been treated differently for the same reason.
According to��Hindustan Times, the ‘Jab We Met’ (2007) star who took to the ramp for fashion designer Sabyasachi at Lakme Fashion Week earlier this year, explained, “There have been people who have walked the ramp with a baby bump. But as I am a mainstream actor, people have reacted differently. I don�۪t see why though, because I have never shied away from being open about things. I never shied away from the fact that I was in a live-in relationship with Saif Ali Khan (husband-actor). There were a lot of discussions regarding that because I come from a well-known family, and I talked about it [openly]. A lot of people told me not to get married because they thought my career would be over. But, [despite being married], I think I have been able to do wonderful work. I have got the opportunity to strike a balance between commercial and non-commercial cinema. Wanting to become a mother was a natural course for me. I don�۪t know why there�۪s such a hue and cry about my pregnancy in the industry. It is the most natural phenomenon for all women”.
Hailing from the��prominent Kapoor��family with a long history in Hindi cinema and with her husband being the son of late cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Bollywood veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, Kapoor-Khan was asked whether she worried if her unborn child would find it difficult to deal with stardom. “Actually no, because Saif and I are very normal. In fact, I think we are possibly the most normal film stars who exist. Everyone who knows us will say the same. We have friends who are not from the film fraternity. We don�۪t go to [film] trials and parties. We are not very PR-driven. We have a private life and we are honest to the media. That�۪s just the way we are going to live our lives. We don�۪t have bodyguards, and we don�۪t believe in having them either. I hope that our family will continue being in this atmosphere. I�۪m not going to hire 10 bodyguards just because my child will belong to a star family.”
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