Exclusive: ‘My mother worked through her pregnancy and wants me to do the same,’ says Pooja Banerjeee

Pooja Banerjeee and Sandeep Sejwal

Kumkum Bhagya actress Pooja Banerjeee aka Rhea Mehra has just announced her pregnancy and is due in March. Currently in her second trimester the actress says she plans to continue working through pregnancy.

Do you plan to keep shooting for Kumkum Bhagya or will you be taking a break?
I'm shooting for Kumkum Bhagya and I'm glad that people and society in general are being supportive about women working through pregnancy. The production house wanted me to continue shoot and not leave the show. I've been getting care from the production people, I used to work 12 hours when possible that will be reduced. We are three siblings and my mother was working till her last month of pregnancy. Acting is a very demanding job, it's not a 9-5 where I get to sit at a desk. But my mother was confident I can pull it off. I was a little apprehensive because your body feels different. I was a ‘weekend baby' my mother used to only visit me on weekends, I used to live with my nani in Uttar Pradesh. My mother worked for an airline in Delhi. So my mother herself was always working and wants me to do the same.

Have you begun shopping for the baby?
I've not started shopping I've been occupied with shoot, doctor visits, planning healthy meals. I didn't realise where time flew.

You have said you always wanted a daughter…
I have two brothers so I've never had a girl sibling and I never got to share clothes and other things, though I did it with my best friends. My brothers always complain to my mother ‘Pooja ke liye aap sab karte ho hamare liye nahi karte.' My mother-in-law also gets the same complaint from my husband. So mothers are always like that, we like doing things for our daughters though we are daddy's girls. Your own daughter feel likes your shadow, so I always wanted that.

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