Exclusive! Esha Gupta reveals she froze her eggs in 2017: If I wasn't an actor, I would have already had three kids by now

Esha Gupta shuttles between Spain, Delhi and Mumbai. During her recent visit to Mumbai, she spoke to us about love, marriage and having children with her boyfriend, Spanish-entrepreneur Manuel Campos Guallar. Excerpts:

At 37, Esha is quite relaxed and is spiritually drawn. She is not in any rat race, especially when it comes to movies. She talks about pacing down in her career and shares, “I'm glad that I have, Manuel (Campos Guallar, Spanish-entrepreneur boyfriend) in my life.He's helped me set up a business (a restaurant in Spain). Coming from the service background, you don't think of business; you think of being self-made, but not really business. I always thought I'd be doing a job under someone and be in a law firm. It's easier, it's more reliable. But he's helped me secure my life. I often joke, that now you can't even leave me. You have to marry me."


As she mentions marriage, the question of when she is planning to tie the knot falls subsequently. The two have been seeing each other for almost five years now. Esha replies, “Marriage would happen anytime soon. I'm focusing more on just my health. Eventually, whenever down the line, I'll get married, and then down the line, I have kids. I'm focusing on that. The last two years by God's grace have been a big change in his life, work-wise. I've always dreamed of having kids. That's always been important. Kids and dogs are two aspects of my life that I can never think of living without."


Motherhood is something that comes innately to Esha. She recalls as a kid she would have a doll, whom she would address as her child. For the first time, Esha vouchsafes that she froze her eggs. She elaborates, “I did my freezing in 2017, before I met Manuel. I was very smart. I was single for almost 3 and half years before I met Manuel (in 2019). I met him by chance, not even in his country or my country. Since then we both knew that we were getting into a relationship and not dating. You're not at that age to date. We were very clear that if it goes well, our end goal is marriage. We want to get married; we want to have kids. I've always loved babies a lot. Manuel knows that; he's ready (to be a father), and he's prepared. When we get married, it will be either IVF or surrogacy – depending on when we get married and what my body is going through. For a woman who wants to have a family, that's important."

It was Esha's aunt - who herself has been through the process - who suggested the actress to freeze her eggs when she is healthy. Fresh off the promotions of her flick , Esha went under the process. “I did the freezing at that time when in India it was really expensive. But I was certain that when it comes to health – anything. These (the eggs) are my kids. I'd rather freeze them when I'm healthy. If I wasn't an actor, I would have already had three kids by now for sure, I've always wanted kids, so I think I would have had three," she elaborates.
Talking about Manuel, she adds, "Manuel is prepared and luckily, he's one of those open-minded men. He is okay with surrogacy which many might have a problem with; he is even okay with adoption – something I told him that we might. So, I'm not stressed when we get married. (laughs). I keep telling Manuel, I want the baby to have his eyes and my skin colour. I just want to marry him because of kids (laughs). And he's like, 'But what if it's the other way around?' I reply, 'Then we will have to keep reproducing (laughs)".


Esha also spoke on the process of freezing eggs, as she mentions, "You end up gaining weight because of the hormones. Our body is changing. You end up becoming moody, but it makes you happy somewhat because it's exciting. It's truly exciting when you're doing it because you're like, ‘Dude, you know what? Tomorrow they are gonna be my kids’."