Overview

• In a Mid-Day conversation published August 24, Dhupia revisited being judged for conceiving before marrying Angad Bedi in 2018.
• She recalled wedding chatter fixating on “How did the baby come in six months?” after daughter Mehr’s November 2018 birth.
• Dhupia said scrutiny of actresses places her alongside Neena Gupta and Alia Bhatt, calling the fixation “ridiculous.”
• She linked the backlash to launching Freedom to Feed in 2019, which promotes open discussion of pregnancy, breastfeeding and postpartum care and now counts a community of roughly 60,000.
• Describing family pressure at the time, she said her parents urged her to marry within 72 hours, and added the trolling persists but she will not stop speaking up.