Alia Bhatt explains why she doesn’t want daughter Raha to be in public eye: ‘Not saying no one can ever see her’

Stating that she and actor husband Ranbir want Raha to be away from the spotlight for the time being, Alia said, “Ranbir and I are very clear on how long we don’t want Raha to be in the public eye for. We don’t even want to post her pictures on social media. I just don’t feel comfortable with any sort of conversation around my little baby right now. There have been so many good wishes, so many blessings. I’m constantly referred to as Raha’s mommy, which I love and find it very cute. But that’s all I’m okay with right now. I’m very protective of the people I love. And I genuinely don’t think that a baby needs to be a public personality. Again, that’s my opinion right now. We’ll take each day as it comes. We also have to be practical as individuals in the public eye. And it’s not like we’re saying nobody can see her ever. It’s just for now. And people have mostly been very respectful about that.”

However, Alia has no complaints from the paparazzi, who she said have been very respectful of her and her privacy barring that sole incident in February, when a couple of photographers clicked her without her permission in her house from the neighbourhood terrace.

“I genuinely believe that we are one industry. The paparazzi are like my work family and they have been very respectful. When I travelled back from London last month, all of them put their cameras away immediately at the airport. Not a single picture of Raha was circulated. I did feel bad about the incident that took place in February, but I wish news portals picking up the image had been more mindful,” added the actor.

However, Alia is over the incident and believes that everyone has learnt to respect certain boundaries, even of people who are public personalities: “I feel like websites sometimes don’t know what they’re picking up either. But I just wanted to highlight that they need to be a little more conscious when it comes to actors. There are cameras everywhere and it has become this unspoken rule that when we are in public, we are up for absolute consumption. We can’t stop that. But I think it’s fair for me to expect privacy in my own home. Honestly, there’s no beef, no angst, no upset. I said what I had to say and received a lot of support for it. And I think people also understood that what I was asking for wasn’t too much,” she concluded.