Neha Dhupia, who is expecting her first child with actor husband Angad Bedi, says she was frowned upon for not going public about her pregnancy.
A day after Neha and Angad announced the news on social media, the couple walked the ramp at designer Payal Singhal and Lakme Salon’s show ‘The Showstopping Bride’ at the Lakme Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2018 edition in Mumbai on Saturday.
This is not the first time a pregnant actor walked the ramp. Earlier, actor Kareena Kapoor Khan had famously flaunted her blooming baby bump at a fashion show.
When asked about showing off her baby bump or working during pregnancy, Neha said, “It’s amazing. I read an article about a woman who was eight months pregnant and was shooting ‘Black Panther’ and one more… Gal Gadot came back for a patchwork of her films… So I have also continuously been working, and did not go public about my situation, and I was frowned upon on ‘Why is she wearing loose clothes or why is she putting on weight?’“
Neha, 37, says she wasn’t concerned about the comments. “For me, it doesn’t matter what other people think of you as long as you are healthy and being respectful to your personal and professional life and striking that balance. And you should. I know that no one can do it better than a woman,” she added.
Walking the ramp this time was a memorable experience for Neha, a former beauty queen. “It has been amazing to be on the ramp looking and feeling like this.”
Neha married Angad in a hush-hush ceremony at a Gurudwara in New Delhi on May 10. She says her husband “is rock solid and funny.”
Bedi also walked the ramp with Dhupia in a matching embellished sherwani. The son of ex-Indian cricketer Bishan Singh, Bedi joked that he ran behind Dhupia for 15 years and this is the first time he was “actually walking with her.”
