On Monday, Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi announced that they are expecting their second child. “Took us 2 days to come with a caption….The best one we could think of was … Thank you, God,” Neha wrote on Instagram. Now, in an exclusive conversation with Pinkvilla, Neha opened up about embracing motherhood for the second time. “It feels exciting. Sometimes I feel like I am fully in control and incharge - I have done it once, and the person that I can go back to, seek advice or draw comparisons with - is myself, that’s not such a bad thing, and of course referring back to the family because they know best,” says Neha.
She further adds, “Sometimes I feel like ‘oh my god, will I be able to handle like twice as much?’. When we had Mehr I was always working on fifty percent brain capacity, because like half of my brain was clouded with things about her, and for her, and now I feel like with two I'll have very little time left to do my own thing. But of course with me the hustle is going to be constant - I am never going to stop doing what I do, because I love my family and my kids.”
Has she already started decorating the nursery for her second child? “You know there’s going to be a lot of common stuff, I have saved a lot of Mehr’s stuff. For us colours don’t matter, I feel every colour is gender neutral so we haven’t gotten into the whole thing of dressing her a certain way. We don’t know what we are going to have next, so it’s all a mixed bag right. Mehr has some really nice wooden toys, which last longer and are good for the environment. Also, Mehr does something very interesting called the messy art, and I feel as the baby arrives, he or she can dive into that. Obviously not initially, but definitely a year later. We have her baby chairs - one in a room and the other outside, so now both of them can share those,” Neha concludes.