Sushmita Sen has always been a woman of substance, grace, and poise. And her daughter Renee seems to follow in her footsteps when it comes to love, life, values, and staying grounded. Renee, who recently made her acting debut in the short film Suttabaazi, held an Ask Me Anything session on Instagram where she was asked about her biological mom.
The question read, “Do you know who is your real mother? Just want to know. Sus mam is fab we all know.” Renee had the best reply to it. She wrote, “I am born to my mother’s heart. This is as real as it gets.” Sharing her best learning from Sushmita, she further added, “I am learning from her every day, but the fact that she is independent and self-made is the best thing that I am learning from her.”
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Earlier in an interview with Rajeev Masand, Sushmita spoke about how she offered to help Renee find out about her biological parents when she turned 18. However, Renee was not interested.
The former Miss Universe who brought Renee up as a single parent since 2000, recounting the incident, said, “I told her we don’t know if the court has the names of her biological parents but there is information in an envelope which is only rightfully hers after she turns 18. I didn’t want to give her the wrong information because I did not want her to go there and get her heart broken. I told her, ‘I’ll take you whenever you’re ready… we must go.’ She told me, ‘But why do you want me to go find out? (sic)’” In 2010, the actress adopted her second daughter, Alisah.
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Adding to that, Sushmita told Renee, “Biological is boring… everybody is born from somebody’s stomach. Why would you want that? You’re special because you’re born from the heart.”
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In her previous interviews, the actress stressed how a mother and child are connected through the umbilical cord during natural birth, whereas in adoption they are connected through something beyond that. She had said, “In adoption, the mother and the child are connected by this higher power, a connection that you cannot cut off. I have had the privilege of experiencing it twice. To become a mother who has given birth from the heart. I have not missed a day of feeling the joy of motherhood.”
But then all this goodness, selfless and unconditional love doesn’t matter, as people don’t have the eye to see the good and are more engrossed in knowing her ‘real mom’. It’s sad, how people are so interested and invested in other people’s lives that they chose to ignore the good. How we hope people actually learn and get inspired from Sushmita and do their bit to make someone’s life better?
Lead Image Credit: Instagram/Sushmita Sen
