Overview
- In a public note, she said she married at 27, froze her eggs at 29 not at Apollo, had her first child at 36, and is now expecting twins at 39, asserting that the timeline was her right.
- Doctors cautioned that egg freezing and IVF are expensive, involve ongoing storage fees, and offer no guarantee of pregnancy, noting fertility declines after 35.
- Online critics accused her of effectively promoting Apollo’s fertility services given her executive role and family ties to the hospital group, a suggestion she rejected.
- Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu reposted the clip and advised entrepreneurs to marry and have children in their 20s, calling it a demographic duty to society and ancestors.
- The short video from her IIT Hyderabad talk drew large engagement and split reactions, with some praising autonomy and others calling the message tone deaf and inaccessible.