Her introduction on the show Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives might have been as the relative of some famous film people, but Maheep Kapoor could very well have been an actor herself. But she decided to instead focus on building a life with husband Sanjay Kapoor and being a jewellery designer.

“I wasn’t acting at all, otherwise I wouldn’t have signed (the show). I’m glad the film I was supposed to do and even shot halfway, never released. I’m a bad actor, it would’ve never worked,” she admits.

On the show, Maheep talked freely about a lot of things. She even mentioned that she knows how it feels to be the “supposedly unsuccessful” part of a big family. Anil Kapoor and Boney Kapoor are her brothers-in-law, while the late Sridevi was her sister-in-law.

The candidness with which she said it, took many by surprise. “Sanjay has had good times, he’s had bad times. But he never brought it back home to us. Yes, it’s not been easy but success is relative, everyone cannot be a Shah Rukh Khan,” she says. Instead, Maheep adds, “I got what I wanted. I had the best of friends, my children (Shanaya and Jahaan) have got the best of everything...God blessed us a lot.”

She is all praise for the film industry too, which she’s been associated with for over 30 years. “It’s not easy to put yourself out there, with the trolling. There’s no other place like the industry,” ends Maheep.