Mandira Bedi on bringing up biological son Vir, adoptive daughter Tara: ‘She's more like me than him, looks like my character from Shanti'
Actor Mandira Bedi had earlier opened up about her emotional and logistical struggles with the adoption process when she and her late husband, filmmaker Raj Kaushal, decided to adopt their daughter, Tara Bedi Kaushal. Though the process was challenging, Mandira recently revealed that she finds more of herself in her adoptive daughter than in her biological son, Vir.
Speaking to Zoom, she said, 'Motherhood is the best thing that has happened to me. I adopted my daughter at the age of 4 and had already had a biological son. I am a very lucky and privileged person to be an adoptive and a biological mother. Not many people have this journey.'
She added, 'To see something in the child that you have given birth to, but to see something of you in a child that you haven't given birth to, I think that is unbelievable. My daughter is more like me than what my son is. My son has a musical mind, he is gifted with music but I can't sing. Whereas my daughter is athletic, sporty and has long curly hair. When I put her hair up in a clip, she looks like my character of Shanti.'
Earlier, in a conversation, Mandira had described the adoption paperwork as 'tough'. She also recalled how they flew Tara to Mumbai on a private jet, having chosen to bring her home during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. 'This is maktoob… for a girl who had never sat in a car before, she took a trip on a private jet. It was naseeb, kismat. We wouldn't have used a private jet, but it was too dangerous to fly commercially because Covid was at its peak. It was the most practical solution at the time,' she had told Humans of Bombay.
Mandira lost her husband Raj Kaushal in 2021 due to a heart attack. Since then, she has not remarried and continues to raise their two children as a single parent.
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