Actress Sameera Reddy who appeared in a lot of movies across different languages is pregnant with her second child.
The actress who is being constantly trolled for the amount of weight she gained after the first child, shared her story to a daily:
“I got pregnant in just a couple of months after my marriage. The game plan was to have the pregnancy and bounce back and getting in the limelight again. But I have never experienced anything like that… It was just the opposite.
It was the worst case scenario of what I could’ve imagined in terms of my body and the way I fell apart as a person because the pregnancy was very tough for me.
I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me There is so much pressure upon us as actors or people in the public eye to portray we have this unreal life. I was also buying into it and trying to provide to it as an actor. I was also trying to keep up with that and say, ‘Hey! look at I am so perfect’. (But) I was the poster girl of what pregnancy shouldn’t be.
From being that ‘sexy Sam’, I went to this. I put on 32 kg up to and couldn’t recognise myself. I was a complete mess.
I would leave the house and they said, ‘Is this Sameera Reddy? What happened to her?’ That pushed me into a further hole.” Sameera said there came a point she couldn’t bear any glare. “Everyone knew I was feeling depressed, but I was a good mother. To top it all, I got this auto ailment called Alopecia areata, which made me lose patches of my hair after almost six months of giving birth. But it did not have anything to do with my pregnancy.
I worked very hard. I got help in terms of therapy and understood that I was lost and confused as a person… What I was as an actor and where I am today as a mother and a wife.”
This time around, she is stronger mentally and is embracing it all.
“I will not look glamorous all the time. But I wanted to come out and say Hey! it’s okay to be like this.”
Courtesy: IANS
