Neha Dhupia, after the birth of her first child Mehr in 2018, has actively spread awareness about breastfeeding and how it has to be normalised. The actor, who’s pregnant with her second child, is happy to have started the conversation.

“By having a conversation, I feel much more empowered. I know I’ll get on that journey and even try my best to be on that journey again, and be treated with the most normal manner with my real experiences. I’m glad I started that conversation two years ago because the second time, it’ll be better for me,” Dhupia says adding that she’s looking forward to it.

She started an initiative two years ago, called Freedom to Feed. “We need to normalise breastfeeding. The more we talk about it, the more we make people aware,” she explains.

Talking about why it’s high time to make breastfeeding easier for new mothers, the 40-year-old says, “I heard a lovely saying around the time I gave birth — ‘Everybody looks after the baby but who looks after the mother?’ We’ve to look for nooks and crannies to breastfeed. Once I had to go inside a toilet of an aircraft as I didn’t want to get others uncomfortable. We should normalise it and stop sexualising it. It’s my child’s nutrition and I should be able to provide it in a most comfortable space,” she explains.

To those who troll young mothers for sharing pictures of them breastfeeding Dhupia says:  “People just need to get their heads out of the gutter. They’ve been through the same process in their own home. We need to pull up such people.”