It was a year of palpable excitement and jittery moments. It was the year of celebrity mommies. A few had their babies, while others are expecting to deliver soon. Aishwarya Rai had a baby girl, while singer Mariah Carey had twins, both these international celebrities entered motherhood amidst much cheer.
Among the mommies-to-be, Lara Dutta and Celina Jaitley were seen flaunting their baby bumps and hottie Shilpa Shetty tweeted that she too is joining the bandwagon. “Women who have promising careers taking up motherhood and one being happy about it, is a lovely thing to happen,” says actor Lakshmi Gopalaswamy. “They all look so lovely flaunting their baby bumps and walking so confidently. The best is Lara Dutta, who seems so much at ease with all the attention she is getting and yet so gracious and humble,” adds Lakshmi.
Lara Dutta, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan or Celina Jaitley, none of them could escape the shutterbugs. Right from the day they stepped out, they had to pose for the cameras.
“Aishwarya looked stunning in the black zardosi salwar kameez at the Abu Jaani and Sandeep Khosla bash. Her appearance just stuck in my head. She was flaunting her baby bump, yet looked so graceful,” says Chinnu Kala, a former model and entrepreneur, who recently delivered a baby girl.
Not just the paparazzi attention, the online world was buzzing with Lara Dutta’s craving for Italian food and how Junior B was playing the perfect husband, present with Ash at all the events she attended. “My husband now spends as much time as possible with me at home. He even says yes to all my unusual cravings,” says actor Asmita Sharma, popular for her role as the mom-in-law in the Hindi serial Pratigya. “I crave for ice candies like mango dolly and orange candy, — it’s okay even if it is from a roadside thela,” adds Asmita who quit the show three months into her pregnancy.
Ash had to say bye-bye to Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine because of her pregnancy. But it isn’t managing a career that is challenging for these new mommies. It is the nocturnal shift of changing diapers. “It is the toughest period of being a new mommy,” says Chinnu.