‘People think it’s some chudail practice, weird cult’: Kalki Koechlin opens up about her water birth experience

When asked why people don’t op for this, Kalki said that there isn’t much information about it in public domain, and it is also more expensive that other methods of child birth. “I don’t know why people don’t opt for it. I guess here its more expensive so that’s a big reason why people don’t opt for it but there are places where you can do it in a hospital also. It’s not like some exclusive thing. You can. But people probably are not informed enough about it,” she said and added, “They just think it’s some weird cult or something, some weird chudail practice. I don’t know what they are thinking.”

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Kalki wrote a book titled Elephant In The Womb soon after she welcomed her daughter Sappho in 2020. In a chat with Hindustan Times, Kali shared that she never felt the urgency to go back to her old body after giving birth. “There was no pressure to go back to my tiny body because people didn’t see me, and we all know actors are always expected to look a certain way. While it initially felt like the stomach would never go, I did eventually get my body back after a year,” she said.

Kalki is married to Guy Hershberg and the couple lives in Goa with their daughter.