Radhika Apte recently left everyone shocked as she casually just flaunted her baby bump on the red carpet at the US premiere of her film, ‘Sister Midnight’. She also announced the birth of her baby that casually recently as she was seen breast-feeding her week-old baby and getting back to work. In her hashtag, she revealed that it’s a girl. Radhika and her husband Benedict Taylor have been married for 12 years now and many came to know of it only recently.
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The actress has finally opened up on her pregnancy and motherhood in an interview with Vogue now. She said that she and her husband were shocked about the pregnancy. “I don’t want to make it public, but let’s just say it’s funny how it happened—it wasn’t an accident, but we also weren’t trying. And it still came as a shock.”
She added, “I think it’s easier when people know whether they want a child or not. In our case, neither of us wanted kids, but there was this one per cent curiosity about what it would be like. Then, when this happened, we wondered whether to even go ahead.”
Talking about getting help while raising the baby and getting back to work, the ‘Andhadhun’ actress said, “And Bened’s parents—they’re all more than happy to help. I always say, one day at a time. My priority was getting the baby earth side; everything else followed after that. Once everyone’s safe and healthy, I’ll be off diving from a liveaboard.”
Radhika also opened up on how it’s been a struggle for her to embrace herself with the pregnancy weight and post-partum as well. She did a photoshoot with Vogue with the baby bump and talking about it, she said, “I did this photo shoot a week before giving birth. Truth is, I struggled to embrace how I looked at the time. I had never seen myself put on so much weight. My body was swollen, I had shooting pains in my pelvis, and the lack of sleep had skewed my perspective on everything. Now, not even two weeks into motherhood, my body looks different again.”
She added, “There are new challenges, new discoveries, and a different perspective has set in. I look at these photos with much kinder eyes and feel bad for being so hard on myself. Now, I can see only beauty in these changes, and I know I will cherish these photos forever.”
