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Actor Anushka Sharma discusses how motherhood has influenced her professional decisions and increased her self-confidence. She explains her choice to reduce her acting workload to prioritize her daughter's needs.
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The article highlights the evolving societal expectations of working mothers and the personal agency involved in balancing high-profile careers with family life.
Motherhood often changes the questions a woman asks herself. The decisions that once revolved around ambition, work or personal priorities can begin to include a much bigger consideration: What feels right for my child and my family?For actor Anushka Sharma, becoming a mother appears to have brought another, less-discussed shift- a stronger belief in her own judgment.In a 2023 conversation at a Puma event in Bengaluru, Sharma spoke about how motherhood had made her more confident, fearless and willing to make decisions that she may not have made earlier. Her comments came in the context of her decision to scale back her acting commitments so she could spend more time with her daughter, Vamika, whom she and cricketer Virat Kohli welcomed in January 2021.But perhaps the most striking part of what Sharma said was not about stepping away from films.
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