Ekta Kapoor embraced motherhood through surrogacy, and has no qualms in accepting that she never had a natural parenting quality like her brother Tusshar Kapoor, who also welcomed his son, Laksshya Kapoor, via surrogacy in 2016.
Ekta admits that motherhood doesn’t come naturally to her
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During an interactive session at ‘Arth – A Culture Fest Season 4’, Ekta opened up about how parenting and motherhood don’t come to her naturally, and she’s still in the learning process.
She said, “Just like Tusshar, I believe that these stereotypical gender-based thought processes now are so broken because I don’t identify with half the mothers, not even my own. I feel I am always lost and I am not this natural parent like Tusshar is. I’m always messing up and taking his advice.”
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Elaborating further on how she doesn’t conform to gender-based roles, she said, “I have much better control over my work than my son. I’m learning with him. You think it comes naturally, but it is not the case. Every day I realize that there are so many new things to learn. It’s a natural progression for all, and gender has nothing to do with it. It came naturally to Tusshar, while it’s been hard for me.”
Ekta shares they are most dysfunctional functional family
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Talking about whether her decision of opting motherhood through surrogacy changed her family dynamics, she said, “I think there is an age where you learn from your parents and after an age, you teach your parents, that’s how life is. We didn’t lead the conventional lives that people do and yet we maintained the warmth in our family. We probably are the most dysfunctional, functional family.”
Ekta is well aware that her son will have to face questions as he grows up, and she wants to teach him how to deal with them, “We protect our kids extremely and feel that they should have a normal life but is the world normal? No, the world is full of flaws. So I am really okay. Let my son live, let people question him, let him get a harder skin, and let him develop an attitude that I have a different life and that’s what it is,” concluded Ekta.
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