Sameera Reddy is presently expecting her second child with husband Akash Varde. It has been quite a time that the actress is away from the limelight and that has also affected the actress as he revealed in a recent interview how things changed for her after the first pregnancy.
The actress gave birth to her son, Hans in 2015 and recently she opened up about how she fell apart as a person. She said “I got pregnant in just a couple of months after my marriage. The game plan was to have the pregnancy and bounce back and getting in the limelight again. But I have never experienced anything like that… It was just the opposite,” she said, explaining, “It was the worst case scenario of what I could’ve imagined in terms of my body and the way I fell apart as a person because the pregnancy was very tough for me.”
The actress in her first pregnancy was completely bedridden for four to five months as she suffered from Placenta previa, a condition that occurs during pregnancy where the placenta lies very low in the uterus and ends up covering a part or the whole of the cervix.
“I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions, and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me,” she said.
Sameera disappeared from the limelight and started being away from it. Describing that she said, “There is so much pressure upon us as actors or people in the public eye to portray we have this unreal life. I was also buying into it and trying to provide to it as an actor. I was also trying to keep up with that and say, ‘Hey! look at I am so perfect’. But I was the poster girl of what pregnancy shouldn’t be.”
Post her first pregnancy, Sameera gained a lot of weight and at a point of time, she even touched 102 kg. “From being that ‘sexy Sam’, I went to this. I put on 32 kg and couldn’t recognize myself. I was a complete mess,” she revealed, adding, “I would leave the house and they said, ‘Is this Sameera Reddy? What happened to her?’ That pushed me into a further hole.”
On being battling depression and struggling with the dark phase of life she said, “I worked very hard. I got help in terms of therapy and understood that I was lost and confused as a person… What I was as an actor and where I am today as a mother and a wife.”
The actress is now at peace with the fact she will put on a bit of weight and is now comfortable with her own skin. She said, “I will not look glamorous all the time. But I wanted to come out and say Hey! it’s okay to be like this’,” she said.
On the work front, Sameera was last seen in the Kannada film Varadhanayaka in 2013.
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