Shweta Bachchan Nanda pens a wonderful letter talking about midlife crisis and daughter Navya

Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda has a penchant for writing and penning down various life experiences. Now, the latest one that she has written unravels some facts about daughter Navya Naveli and her father Mr Bachchan couldn’t agree enough on it, as he retweeted the column on his Twitter page.

In a column for DNA, Shweta wrote, “Well into my 40s, I’m still wading in the shallow end, not deep enough to start worrying about hot flashes and sweats, but I know it’s well within my reach, I start thinking if I’m going through something or the other. By the time I am home, I’m convinced. If there is a “female midlife crises” I am in the throes of it. Symptomatic of a midlife crises, could very well be. In my head, I’m as vibrant as a 16 year old, delusional, yes, do I want to change it? Absolutely not! I wear distressed jeans and watch YouTube videos on contouring. When we travel abroad together, people mistake my daughter and me for sisters — I love telling them my age, my daughter is cringing, jabbing me in the ribs and asking me to ‘calm down’.” (Also Read: The Bachchans support Shweta Bachchan Nanda as she walks the ramp)

She further writes, “Act your age, not your waist size; for the first time in so many years I don’t care about the waist size, so no! Keep your advice to yourself! I don’t want to be young (who wants to go back to being at odds with yourself and the world desperate for acceptance) nor am I fighting my age, I’m just embracing myself and what better time than now? Imagine shaking off all that old restrictive ill-fitting skin, that’s what middle age is like — a brand new old you. A few years ago, my mother stopped dying her hair and has gracefully gone grey. At 40, after half a lifetime of being too unsure of myself and too scared of what my mother would think, I decided I’m going to throw in some blondes into mine.”

Wow, what powerful words!

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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