Sushmita Sen
set some major inspiration after she won ‘
Miss Universe
‘ and challenged a lot of norms from a very young age. For instance, she adopted a girl despite being single and fought her way through it. After fighting for adopting her first daughter Renee, it was an easy process while adopting her second child Alisah. She’s also always known to speak her mind and recently, the actress recalled the time her parents advised her to speak carefully in public as it raised eyebrows.
Recalling how the society earlier was not as open as it is today, Sushmita sen during a chat with
Rhea Chakraborty
for her podcast that her parents told her not to use the word ‘
sex
‘.
“The society was not as open as today. It was like ‘haw.’ Everything was ‘haww’ to the extent that my Maa and Baba had to sit me down and say, ‘There is a lot riding on your shoulders and curb a little bit of what you’re saying. Why use the word ‘sex’ in an interview at 18?
Shobhaa De
’s writing badly about you.’ And I remember her name coming up specifically, you know, Bengali. Bengalis are considered intellectual. So, it was the intellectual articles that were bothering and not the gossip ones,” said Sushmita.
She further revealed that she later spoke to Shobhaa De about it as she wanted to break societal norms. “I purposely brought up the word because everything that I wanted to be was not ‘Miss Universe’, or ‘the most beautiful person.’ I wanted to be a liberated human being, someone who is truly free. In that attempt, I became India’s first Miss Universe. It was that freedom that let me do it. Now that I won it, everyone was trying to curb that freedom because so much of the onus lies on you for so many things,” said Sen.
On work front, Sushmita was seen in ‘Taali’ and ‘Aarya 3’, for which she got a lot of love.
