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“I was meant to be a mother,” Sushmita Sen said in a recent interaction. The actor opened up about the process of adopting her first daughter, Renee, and how she fought a long court battle to bring her home. She explained that despite being only 21 at the time, her father decided to sign off his assets for her adopted daughter in order to demonstrate intent and support in court.
Speaking on YouTube channel Dr Sheen Gurrib, Sushmita said, “When I legally became an adult at 21, I knew this is what I want to do. So from 21 to 24… then the legal battle started. Once the legal battle started, at least, I had my daughter under foster care with me. But you are living with that constant trauma of what if the family court does not pass this in my favour, they will take the child back and now this child has started calling Ma. I had a plan. I told my dad at the hearing that just keep the car running, you will take her and you will run away. My father says ‘Now we are really pushing it. We are not going to do any of that.’ But I was like they can’t take my baby away from me.”
Talking about her father’s unwavering commitment to her wish, she said, “I’m so proud of my father. I have my children because of him in a country that requires either a father or a father figure to adopt a baby. He was told by the court that he has to show financial intent to support my kid and that he had to sign off half of his assets but my father told the court, ‘I am not a very rich man, so if you take half of that, it will be nothing. I have come to sign unconditionally everything I own in her name.’”
Sushmita recalled the judge warning her father against this decision and even pointing out that she might never find a groom as a young single mother. “The judge also warned my father that no good family boy would want to marry me, but he told him that I have not raised her just to be someone’s wife. Then they granted it and that was the turning point.”
The Biwi No 1 actor admitted that after fighting a long legal battle for her first daughter, adopting her second daughter — Alisah Sen –— was a “cakewalk.”
When asked about marriage and how she views it, Sushmita said, “Marriage to me is companionship and if I have that, I don’t need a piece of paper to tell me.” She added, “Also, as a woman, I have already raised two daughters alone, so I don’t need a man to do that. I don’t need a man for my diamonds or my houses or my properties. All that is also something I have done along the way alone. So today what can a man or relationship bring to the table? Companionship.”
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