x @suta_bombay “Convention tells you: grow up, get married, then have children. But I still remember being in high school, watching Sushmita Sen on TV, winning her court case and adopting a child. That moment changed me. For the first time, I could dissociate marriage from motherhood.” shares @sahithyajagannathan ❤️ “While my friends dreamed of weddings, I never did. But I always dreamed of being a mother. At three, I told my mother I’d have a boy and a girl. Their names kept changing— Tom-thumb and Thumbelina, Noddy and someone else - but the dream remained. When it was my turn, I realised I didn’t necessarily want marriage. I wanted partnership, commitment, family—but on my terms I chose to be a happily unmarried mother in a long-term committed live -in relationship. Society didn’t get it. But the people who matter to me get it and it’s what I Chose for myself. It’s time women write their own scripts. Law and society will catch up. What’s it like to mother twins? There’s no manual for the magic or madness. They feel each other’s pain. They defend each other against me. It’s intense. Beautiful. Exhausting. I train at the gym to carry them—30 extra kilos—because I want to carry them for as long as I can. No one warns you about being puked into your mouth or being peed on mid-change, by the way. Motherhood, for me, came with breastfeeding for over two years—not because I had to, but because I chose to. It disrupted life. But it was an investment in their health. I had to unlearn the model I grew up with—of mothers who disappeared into their roles. I watched my own mother give up so much of herself. And I was doing it too. Almost four years in, I’m learning to come back to myself. Because being a mother is a beautiful part of me—but it’s still just one part of me. And I deserve to nurture all of me.” #motherhoodreimagined #suta #mommyshotsbyamrita #mothersday #campaign #2025 #strong #empowering #journey