Dia Mirza shares an ordeal on how climate change affected her pregnancy 

Actor Dia Mirza is one of the environmentalists who is often seen advocating for cleaner air. Considering the air is severely polluted in certain cities, Dia ensures to share the statistics and numbers of the climate change on her social media handle. However, Dia who embraced motherhood by welcoming a baby boy Avyaan Azaad Rekhi on May 14 this year recently shared her ordeal on how this climate change has affected her pregnancy and how parents need to take action immediately. While talking to the Quint, the Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein actress revealed that throughout her pregnancy, she smoked as she and her newborn were breathing polluted air.

Sharing her ordeal with the portal, she said, “My own pregnancy was complicated by a bacterial infection and my extremely prematurely born baby stayed away from me in a Neonatal ICU for months from birth. I do not know what caused the infection, but I know that many millions of mothers worldwide, with far less privilege than I have, routinely suffer from complications during their pregnancy because of the toxic environments we live in.”