Raveena Tandon opens about her adopted daughters and ‘Yellow Dirty Journalism’ of 90s
Raveena Tandon, one of the leading actresses from the glorious 90s, adopted two daughters at the age of 21 in 1995.
BollywoodMDB Team | Updated On: Jan 27, 2022 04:40 PM IST
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Raveena Tandon adopted two daughters Chaya and Pooja at the age of just 21 while unmarried in 1995. She did not speak openly about them until recently.
In an Interview with RJ Siddharth Kannan, Raveena said, "Initially, it was that era of tabloidism and yellow dirty journalism. There were these hardcore writers who were just writing nasty stuff and headlines were nasty. In those days, a scandal could be created out of anything. When I did adopt the girls, initially, I did not talk about them at all, till they passed their 10th standard and after that, they started hanging out with me on my shoots. Then, everyone started asking, ‘Who are these girls?’ And I would start telling them this is how it is.”
The actress continued, "You were so scared that even if you said something, what would these people make it out to be? Magazine wale bol denge ki isko secretly baby ho gaya, kiska baby hai? (The magazines would say that I secretly had a baby and speculate about the father). It was that era. Itna gandh tha unke minds mein (Their minds were so filthy). To avoid such stories, I just did it very quietly.”
Raveena is married to Anil Thadani and has two kids with him, daughter Rasha and son Ranbirvardhan. Pooja and Chaya are also married and have kids of their own. Raveena also shared a story about how her daughters sat in the car with her as they drove to Mandap for Raveena’s marriage and later how she was happy to walk them down the aisle.
