“I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT SEX DURING PREGNANCY IN THE BOOK BECAUSE IT IS A RELEVANT TOPIC BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND A WIFE AND WHAT THE WOMAN ACTUALLY FEELS!”

–KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN

(Left) Kareena’s Brunch cover from 2016 when she was 8 months pregnant with Taimur looked like a painting, (right) the newlyreleased Kareena Kapoor’s Pregnancy Bible, published by Juggernaut

surrogacy,” says Kareena. “It was me who had suggested it years ago and Saif’s instant reaction had been that if we can have children, why not try and do it ourselves? He was very clear that we should do it the right way and that’s what happened. God had it planned this way, I guess. Carrying both my children has been the greatest joy for me in life and I’m happy I’ve experienced it with both the boys. I also enjoyed being pregnant. I actually didn’t care about what I looked like: my face was bloated, my feet were swollen, yet I was waddling in and out of restaurants during Tim’s time, and during my second pregnancy, too, I was shooting for brands till my eighth month!”

Kareena delivered Taimur (or ‘Tim’) in

December 2016, and had her second baby, Jehangir (or ‘Jeh’) in February 2021. She has penned her experiences in a newly released book called Kareena Kapoor’s Pregnancy Bible, co-written by Aditi Shah-bhimjyani and published by Juggernaut.

“When Chiki Sarkar [publisher of Juggernaut books] came to me with the idea, the first thing I asked her was how much I would be allowed to tell,” says Kareena, making it amply clear that the “bold topics” she has addressed in the book were of her own doing. “The book is a blowby-blow account of what happened during my pregnancies, Covid times and more. It is not an autobiography,” adds Kareena, explaining that it is full of solid advice from the experts who helped her. “It is also the only book to be approved by FOGSI (Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India), which means a lot.”