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I have frozen my eggs, so we are not in a hurry to have kids-Mona Singh
8:03 AM
The actress wants to spend more time with husband Shyam Gopalan and travel the world with him before stepping into motherhood
Akash Wadhwa (BOMBAY TIMES; November 22, 2020)
While there may not be an age to get married, is Mona worried about the biological clock ticking? “I have frozen my eggs and now I am free. I did that at the age of 34. Because I have gotten married now, I want to chill with my partner and travel the world with him. I haven’t done that yet. I have always travelled with my family or friends. I want to do that with my husband now and it is a different feeling now — going for walks, getting all the attention, keeping Karwa Chauth vrat — all this is so nice. Even though I love kids, if you ask me now, I am not mentally prepared to have one. Later in life, I would definitely think about it,” she says. Mona adds, “My mother was so happy when she heard about my decision to freeze my eggs. We both went to my gynaecologist in Pune and I had to take a few months break from work as the process involves a lot of mood swings. It took about five months for the process and now, as I said, I am free.”
The actress shares that a lot has changed over the last few months. “I have lived with my parents all my life and I am used to my own independence and my own space, doing my own things. After marriage, I moved in with my husband in December. At that time also I was shooting for Laal Singh Chaddha, so I wasn’t really home. The whole of January and February I was not with him. It was in March that we actually started staying in together because of the lockdown,” says Mona.
She adds, “I experienced so many beautiful things happening for the first time in my life. Before I got married, Gaurav (Gera) used to be my go-to person. I used to chill with him and share everything with him. And now it is my husband, who is not only a companion but a great listener, too. Also, I am a very old school kind of person and so I believe in adjusting after marriage. Compromising is a negative term, so adjusting is what I would prefer to use. We both are adjusting and we both have our agreements and disagreements. We both are strong individuals and we respect each other’s individuality.”
Talking about the lockdown period, the actress says, “We saw and experienced the pandemic together. Our entire routine went out of the window. I am a very disciplined person. I sleep and wake up on time and I go for walks. But I couldn’t do anything because of the lockdown. We both chilled so much and I broke all my rules with him. I was up till 5 am watching movies and binging on shows, eating ice creams, cooking together, waking up in the afternoon. I had the best time in lockdown with my husband. Lockdown was actually like a mini honeymoon for the two of us. I don’t think we would have gotten so much time to spend together otherwise.”
The couple had planned a honeymoon in Spain and Italy in April-May, which didn’t happen because of the pandemic. However, they went to Goa recently. “The trip was fun! Usually what happens on vacations is that you get so tired that you need another vacation to rest. But that didn’t happen with us. We didn’t step out of the hotel and avoided crowded places or parties in Goa. I go to meet my parents every day and I don’t want to put them at risk. We both have done some 20-odd Coronavirus tests so far,” she shares.
For me, this lockdown is an extended honeymoon-Mona Singh
8:54 AM
Kavita Awaasthi (HINDUSTAN TIMES; April 5, 2020)
“These are crazy times. No one would have thought that something like this could happen,” says Mona Singh, 38, who has been dividing her Coronavirus lockdown time between parents and husband, as they live close by.
The actor adds, “My parents need me the most right now, as they are vulnerable. So, I stay with them for two to three days, and cook and clean for them. Then I stay with my husband (Shyam Gopalan) for two to three days, and we take turns — he chops and I cook, he sweeps and I mop. We go to buy essentials and binge-watch stuff we couldn’t catch-up on. He loves photography, so I am his muse these days. The highlight of this lockdown is it’s an extended honeymoon (laughs).”
Singh loves cooking but it’s the cleaning that gets to her. “I use minimum dishes as I know dhone toh mujhe hi padenge (laughs). Mere do kilo kam ho gaye hain (I’ve lost 2 kg). We are eating as per need and not snacking unnecessarily, as we know how important each food item is. I feel after this pandemic is behind us, we, as people, will change,” she says.
Apart from work, Singh admits she didn’t have to “adjust” much. In fact, she was shooting for Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha till mid-March, and is glad to spend time at home. But people’s behaviour in markets irks her. “People run inside shops, and have, at times, brushed against me to get to the counter. One day was particularly scary. When cops came to shut a shop I was in, people behaved crazily and ran around. I began crying as I was worried about contracting the virus,” she says.
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