Dia Mirza reveals step-daughter Samaira had her name saved on the phone as ‘not yet the evil step-mother’

Dia Mirza opened up about her equation with husband Vaibhav Rekhi's daughter Samaira.

New Delhi | May 13, 2023 04:28 PM IST

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Dia Mirza with her husband Vaibhav Rekhi and kids. (Photo: Dia Mirza/Instagram)

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Bollywood actor Dia Mirza, who tied the knot with businessman Vaibhav Rekhi in 2021, shed light on her relationship with Vaibhav’s 14-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Samaira Rekhi. Dia also shared a funny story about the nickname that Samaira had given her on her phone.

In an interview with Zoom Entertainment, Dia said that it is important for a child to be respected. The actor said, “I treat her as an individual, which she is. I think it is so important for a child to be loved and cared. But it is also so important for a child to be respected as an individual, and I do that with Samaira because my parents did that with me. I hate the term step-daughter. Because I never referred to my father as step-father. I had a step-father.”

Talking about Samaira’s nickname for her, Dia said, “For the longest time, Samaira had my name saved on her phone as ‘not yet the evil step-mother’. So I have not yet qualified as a step-mother. I never grew up with concepts of wicked stepmother. If you want to raise good people who learn to respect everybody you also then have to raise people who understand that sometimes some relationships don’t work and some others do.”

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Samaira is Vaibhav’s daughter from his first marriage with Sunaina Rekhi. Dia and Vaibhav have a son–Avyaan Azaad Rekhi. On the work front, Dia was recently seen in Anubhav Sinha’s Bheed.

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