Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Her Pregnancy Weight: ‘Hey, now your baby is one year old, you have not lost weight yet…’ Losing weight after pregnancy is not that easy for every woman. Many times this pregnancy weight becomes such a problem that women even go into depression. It is the dream of many women to get their old body back after the birth of a child, but this is not possible. The pressure to lose weight after pregnancy is more visible on social media than it is from people around. There are many such accounts on which you see ‘superfit mothers’. The disappearance of pregnancy weight of actresses like Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt within months also surprises many women. But on the contrary, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who was Miss World, had to face a lot when she did not lose weight even after several months of the birth of her daughter Aaradhya.
‘It is their job to look beautiful…’
After the birth of Aaradhya, when Aishwarya was seen with increased weight on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, the headline of an international newspaper was, ‘It is her DUTY to look good and FIT’ (It is her duty to look beautiful and fit). Look fit’). But away from all this pressure, Aishwarya chose her own journey. In an interview given to AljaZeera in October 2012, Aishwarya spoke openly about why she did not lose weight immediately after pregnancy. Famous journalist David Forrest, who took the interview, asked Aishwarya that so many headlines are being made about your weight, why is all this? On this Aishwarya laughed and said, ‘Even I am not able to understand why there is so much talk about this? Because I feel that this should not even be talked about because it is not so important.
Aishwarya Rai with husband Abhishek Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya.
Whatever my body was, it was all natural: Aishwarya Rai
Talking about her pregnancy weight, Aishwarya says, ‘If we talk about my case, all this was normal. My body had taken this shape naturally. Now whether it was weight gain or water retention in the body, whatever was there was natural. I was completely comfortable in my body and that is why I remained what I was. When I got some time away from my child, I came out of the house. I didn’t think it was such a big deal (weight) so I never hid it or did anything about it. In today’s times everything is possible. Science has made such incredible progress that we know it and even if I wanted it to happen overnight I could have done it. But I did not choose him and this is in front of everyone. Because I had no problem with my weight. Because I was busy living my real life with my daughter.
Aishwarya Rai is living with her daughter Aaradhya these days. In the picture she is seen with her mother. (Photo courtesy: Instagram@aishwaryaraibachchan_arb)
Aishwarya further says, ‘The only thing I learned from this is that many women came to me and said that thank you, because of you they inspired us to be comfortable in our bodies. Because in this phase it was always said that you should work on your body, you should not come in front of people with this weight. Although it was not my mission to raise any flag, I just wanted to be real.
