Known to live her life on her own terms, Anushka left everyone speechless when she married Virat Kohli at the age of 29 in a secret ceremony.
Actor-producer Anushka Sharma, who is all geared up to welcome her first child with cricketer-husband Virat Kohli, has been making headlines for her bold and alluring maternity photoshoot with a leading fashion magazine that has all the elements of simplicity, chicness and minimalism combined in one.
Looking graceful donning various carefully chosen attires including a chic pantsuit while flaunting her bare baby bump in the cover photo, one can safely say that Anushka has been breaking stereotype one conscious choice at a time.
In fact, she has been in the forefront and leading by example when it comes to redefining the way one can be in the public eye and still maintain privacy.
From disclosing her wedding with Virat after tying the knot in a secret ceremony in Tuscany, managing to keep the details under the wraps despite being an A-list star, to keeping her pregnancy hidden for months, Anushka has been deciding the timeline of when she wants the milestones in her life to come out in the media and so far, one can say she has been doing it all perfectly.
But besides this, the other one thing Anushka has been doing is breaking the glass ceiling with careful yet gutsy decisions.
Take a look:
Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli secret wedding
Most celebrities aren't known to have had secret weddings. Especially when both the individuals in the relationship are star figures in the country and one of the most sought after couples in Bollywood.
While most opt for a big fat wedding spreading over days, Anushka and Virat chose to keep it a low-key affair, one that no one knew about until pictures from the wedding broke the internet.
Known to live her life on her own terms, Anushka left everyone speechless when she married Virat Kohli at the age of 29 in a secret ceremony. She led by example and proved that an actress can be married and still be at the top of her game. She was the first among her contemporaries to marry and her wedding broke the internet. She kept all the details of her marriage under the wraps and the world came to know of the couple's wedding only after Anushka and Virat put out coordinated posts on the social media handles making their wedding announcement. One must mention that it is a no easy task to achieve when one is constantly under the public eye and media lens. But, as we said, Anushka sure knows how to keep her private life 'private'.
Also to note is the fact that at 29 and while she was being touted as one of the leading female actors in the country, she chose to tie the knot while carrying on with her fantastic work and managing to stay on top of the game thereby dismissing naysayers that married actresses can't have a career in Bollywood.
Anushka Sharma: A producer at 25
Anushka turned producer when she was 25, the first heroine to do so. And while she became a producer, Anushka backed content which could otherwise have been overlooked since they weren't 'mainstream' ideas.
She produced films like 'Phillauri', 'Pari' and 'NH10', the latter being a critically-acclaimed movie. On OTT too, Anushka backed stand-out, disruptive content such as 'Paatal Lok' and 'Bulbul'.
Anushka Sharma: No qualms in exploring genres
Anushka, who was the first A-list actress from her generation to turn producer, had the industry and audiences talking when she chose to play the lead role in a horror flick, something that most leading heroines wouldn't agree to.
Through 'Pari', Anushka successfully explored herself as an actor proved that even if you are at the top of your game, as an artist one must be open to exploring different genres, take chances and not play safe by typecasting oneself in roles.
Anushka's maternity shoot: A gamechanger
Never before has a Bollywood leading lady done a shoot in which she has embraced motherhood and oozed of so much confidence and independence, flaunting her bare baby bump.
Anushka’s cover and the images subsequently published are fun, glamourous and statement-making and see can be seen making a style statement in a chic pantsuit while showing off her baby bump on the magazine's cover.
It shatters stereotypes about how a woman should be dressing during pregnancy, it shatters societal expectations of whether or not a woman should show her bump to public and it tells women, above all, to embrace their body, their journey and most importantly their individuality and life choices.
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