Quotes from Mandira Bedi

That's the saddest part about fiction shows. If one show works, there would be six other made on similar lines.

Now I finally know how painful it is for a mother to be working when her child needs her.

When you experience parenthood, it makes you look at the other side as well.

We had applied for adoption three years ago, but it was during the lockdown that I felt the void even more.

People like to watch downtrodden women who are suffering and trying to find their way up. I don't know why we have gone backwards.

In every show that you see, there's some stuff that's funny and some stuff that is not, or there might be stuff that you find funny and I don't. That would be true for any show, however funny or popular.

Raj has always been a great encouragement to me. We have gone through some really rough patches as well. There was a time when I was always busier than him. That was a good part of our married life.

I have a thing against using botox and fillers. That's not my thing at all.

The entertainment business is brutal.

People forgot I was an actor before gaining success in anchoring. That was one of the turning phases of my career.

In my 20s, I was carving a space for myself in the world of entertainment.

I always thought I will wait for a channel to come with a Mandira Bedi centric role.

Of course, my husband is extremely supportive.

I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.

I play the role of a gangster's wife in a web series, a cop's wife in Hindi film 'Vodka Diaries,' a cop in 'Adangathey' and a gangster in 'Saaho.' So yeah, I have got all the roles covered.

I don't think it is very polite and respectful asking someone out during an interview.

I take Vir with me wherever I go. Its not really practical to leave him behind.

When I was pregnant, we decided that if it's a girl, we would name her Tara and if it's a boy it would be Vir.

I gave birth to my son when I was 39, in 2011, as my contracts didn't allow me to get pregnant. I was scared that if I get pregnant, it will be the end of my career.

I have designed 150 saris.

As my primary language was English, I had to work on my Hindi. I wasn't so comfortable with it.

Until the legal formalities are completed, one is not supposed to make it public. When a child comes home, he/she is considered to be in foster care for the first month; the legal procedures begin after that.

I have faced trolling from the time I have been on social media.

I have grown up in an environment of equality, so feminism is equality for me.