Kareena Kapoor Khan has spoken about the negativity and trolling she had to endure for naming her sons Taimur and Jehangir in an interview with an international publication. “Honestly, these are names that we just liked; it’s nothing else. They are beautiful names and they’re beautiful boys. It’s unfathomable why somebody would troll children. I feel terrible about it, but I have to just focus and get through it. I can’t be looking at my life through the trolls,” the 40-year-old actress, who welcomed her second baby with Saif Ali Khan in February this year, was quoted as saying. While the pair had revealed the name of their first child Taimur, born in 2016, to the media, they refrained from doing so when it came to their newborn. The name of their second son Jehangir, however, surfaced on social media when her recent book was released. The actress also spoke about a host of other topics, like equal pay in Bollywood and embracing the changes in her body during pregnancy. Excerpts:

Addressing the issue of equal pay, Kareena said there has been a shift in Bollywood as a lot of female actors have started being vocal about it. “Just a few years ago, no one would talk about a man or woman actually getting equal pay in a movie. Now there are a lot of us being very vocal about it,” she said. “I make it quite clear what I want and I think that respect should be given. It’s not about being demanding, it’s about being respectful towards women. And I think things are kind of changing,” she added.

Kareena, who hails from the iconic Kapoor film family of the Indian film industry, said she has got work purely on the basis of her hard work. “When Karisma joined the film industry, she was the only one in the family working. So it was us, the women, who took the dynasty forward,” she said.

Kareena was quite successful in 2012 when she decided to marry Saif Ali Khan, who was 10 years her senior and previously married with two children. At the time, the actress was warned against tying the knot, and told that it would derail her career.

“When I married Saif, so many people told me that my career would be over because no producer wants to work with a married actress. At that time, no other Bollywood actress got married and then continued to work. But I just thought: Okay, well, if it does end my career, then that’s fine, that’s my destiny. I’m not going to not marry the person that I love,” said the actress.

The actress also spoke about displaying her baby bump and refusing to have her postmaternity shoots airbrushed.

“Most Bollywood actresses, when they get pregnant, don’t leave the house because they are stressed about how they look, that they are no longer this glamorous diva, worried if they put on some weight that people will judge them. There’s still a lot of those taboos. But I just wanted to own it,” she said.

“Pregnancy is pretty common, so why are we trying to hide it behind the curtain?” she continued, adding, “I don’t want my photos airbrushed because I’m not looking as skinny as Kate Moss... I don’t want to look like that in my photos.”