After a remarkable performance in Bell Bottom, Bollywood actress Lara Dutta has been busy promoting her latest web-series on Lionsgate, Hiccups and Hookups. Recently, the actress recalled an incident when she almost had a heart attack on hearing her daughter Saira talk about divorce when she was a 4-year-old.
Lara’s reaction when her daughter mentioned ‘divorce’
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In an interview with Brut India, the former Miss Universe shared how it was her husband and tennis superstar Mahesh Bhupathi who actually taught their daughter what divorce means. She elaborated, “His favourite show ever is Friends, which he got my daughter hooked on to when she was just four years old.
So at four, my daughter came and asked me one day, ‘Mum…’ she was playing a game and she said, ‘Oh, I’m living. This is my house, that’s your house and I’m divorce. (sic)’ And I almost had a heart attack, because I was just like ‘What are you saying? Who told you? What is divorce?’ and she’s like, ‘Oh, when two people are in a bad marriage and don’t get along and they’re living separately, it means they are divorced.’”
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This prompted the actress to call her husband immediately to enquire about the same, “Mahesh, why the hell have you told her what divorce is?’ and he started laughing. He was like, ‘No, we were watching Friends and she wanted to know why Ross was married three times.’ I was like, ‘So you told her the meaning of divorce?’ That’s the kind of parents we are.’”
Lara doesn’t want to be her daughter’s best friend
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Lara’s definition of parenting is a tad different and she doesn’t believe in being a best friend to her daughter. Talking about her bond with Saira, she told ANI, “My daughter is nine years old. My relationship with her is very very different from what it’s like to be a mom of an 18-year-old teenager.”
Explaining why she refrains from being a friend to her daughter unlike other moms, she said, “It’s very nice when you hear mothers of teenage girls say that we are not really mother and daughter, we are more like best friends. But I know that when my daughter is a teenager, I don’t want to be her best friend. I want to be her mother. Because if I am her best friend, then who the hell is her mother?”
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