Vidya Says, “I’m NOT A Baby-Making Machine” And It’s Time To Change How We Perceive A Woman!

Celebrities live a life of fame and name but nothing about it comes easy. In fact, it is almost a given, that stars who walk with stardom have fallen victims to an unsolicited fandom that borders on intrusion of privacy and space.

Not just that, the paparazzi culture, if not anything, has added insult to injury, prying on matters that do not need the scrutiny of flashing cameras, zooming lenses and judgy eyes. Hell, it has claimed lives before (read: princess Diana) and many celebs, till date, pay the price. However, you know what the worst part is? The juicy tabloids that will conjure crap, just to sell. And nothing sells, after sex scandals, like ‘pregnancy rumours’! But Bollywood Actress, Vidya Balan has had enough! 

Vidya who has lately been under the scanner for ‘being pregnant’ and her ‘questionable weight gain’ after being spotted at a clinic, has now come forward and slammed every such notion. 

“It was annoying. I could be going to a clinic for an acne too! Why is it that every time a woman, post marriage, visits a doctor, there are whispers of her pregnancy?”

In fact, earlier, Vidya had even put her foot down at the hand of a creepy fan who crossed his limits at the Kolkata airport. But the question isn’t that anymore. The cry of the hour is ‘public figures’ are treated as ‘public property’.

 

In an interview to Mid-day, Vidya spoke about how she is bombarded with questions related to her pregnancy and also opened up about an incident that talks about a woman’s brush with daily and casual patriarchy. 

 

The actress also gave an unapologetic and blatant answer to everybody who is fixated about women and nothing but procreation. 

“What is this baby obsession? I am not a baby-making machine.”

“Anyway, the world population is on a rise. If some people don’t have children, it’s fine.”

I couldn’t agree more! I mean, remember when Hollywood biggie Jennifer Aniston was hounded for the same reason? ‘If she was pregnant yet?’, the same obligatory confinement that a woman is only complete if she is a mother?  Although her powerful letter to media stayed in the news for a while, the impact passed with each passing day!

Excuse me for putting it out there but the kind of treatment women get, post marriage is not only extremely insensitive but an insult to every aspiration the woman’s ever had. No, don’t get me wrong; feminism is not just about women carrying briefcases to work but the primitive choice to live life, on her own effing terms!

Conceiving, gestating and delivering a baby, included. 

News Source: Mid-day 

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