Mandira Bedi on bringing up biological son Vir, adoptive daughter Tara: ‘She’s more like me than him, looks like my character from Shanti’

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.”

Mandira Bedi talks about motherhood. (Pic: Mandira/Instagram)

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.