Aishwarya Rai, who has been heavily criticised for not losing her baby weight in stellar time, Bachchan is not letting cruel weight jibes spoil her baby bliss. The 38-year-old actress couldn’t help but gush about her six-month-old baby girl Aaradhya as she posed on the red-carpet at the Cannes premiere of Cosmopolis this evening.
“Motherhood is wonderful. You ask the question and I beam!” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
“It’s splendid… It’s inexplicable.
The joy, the bliss, is wonderful. A smile from my daughter and that’s it! She’s good. She’s great,” she said.
The former Miss World, who is married to Abhishek Bachchan, the son of one of India’s best-loved stars, gave birth to her daughter, in November last year.
She found international fame in the Hollywood film ‘Bride and Prejudice’, and Julia Roberts billed her as the world’s most beautiful woman.
One website posted a video of the star looking less than her usual svelte self, flicking between photographs of her pre-birth, and photos now. Dozens more videos in a similar vein have been posted, each with viewing figures in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
However, she has commendably remained cool-headed about the criticism, and has been open about the fact that she is in no hurry to lose the few extra pounds she gained during her pregnancy.