I was a complete mess post my pregnancy: Actor Sameera Reddy

Actress Sameera Reddy who has worked in popular movies like Race, Taxi No 9, 2, 11 and De Dana Dan is expecting her second child with husband Akshai Varde. The actress says she was ‘a mess’ after the birth of her son, Hans in 2015. Her weight reached close to 102 kilos and she was depressed. But despite all this Sameera says, ‘she was a good mother’.
She had put on extra 32 kilos because of which people couldn’t recognise her.They made it even worse for her by saying things like, ‘Is it Sameera Reddy? What happened to her?".
She added, “On the top of all this, I also got an auto ailment called Alopecia areata, which made me lose patches of my hair after six months of my pregnancy”.
It took the actress a lot of efforts and hard work to get back to her old self. She says “I worked very hard and got help in terms of therapy and understood that I was lost and confused between what I was as an actress and what I am now as a wife and a mother”.
The actress reported that she was expecting to make a comeback soon after delivering the baby but she could not because she "fell-apart as a person" post-pregnancy.
She also said that “There is so much pressure upon us as actors or people in the public eye to portray we have this unreal life. I was also buying into it and trying to provide to it as an actor. I was also trying to keep up with that and say, 'Hey! look at I am so perfect'. (But) I was the poster girl of what a pregnancy shouldn't be".
But with her second pregnancy, Sameera says that she is ready now and has embraced how she has a baby bump and the weight that she will put on. She also says, “I will not look glamorous all the time, but I wanted to come out and say, Hey!, Its’s okay to be like this”.
With inputs from IANS