It's the age of Bollywood mommies! Right from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who's hung up her working boots for a while to care for her bundle of joy, to Shilpa Shetty, who's waiting for a visit from the stork in summer.
Caught in the transitional process of motherhood, these celebrity mommies go from svelte to plump and back with admirable ease but it does make for endearing sights when they turn up at dos, proudly cradling their baby bumps as opposed to their former svelte avatars.
Caught in the transitional process of motherhood, these celebrity mommies go from svelte to plump and back with admirable ease but it does make for endearing sights when they turn up at dos, proudly cradling their baby bumps as opposed to their former svelte avatars.
Here's looking at Bollywood belles and their transformation as they take on motherhood and maternity clothes.
Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa has been known for her super-slim body but the expectant mother (she's due to give birth to her first child in May) is still at ease in front of the camera in her pregnant phase. She was recently spotted (top, right) at an IPL event where she unveiled her team's (Rajasthan Royals) jersey.
Last year, she turned up for IIFA awards looking ultra-glam in a body-hugging number.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Photographs: Pascal Rossignol / Reuters and Pradeep Bandekar
Bollywood's resident beauty queen stepped out (top, right) just few days before delivering her baby for a designers' bash in an ornate salwar-kameez.
She may have piled on a few kilos but the glam glow was very much in place.
Lara Dutta
Photographs: Manav Manglani/Reuters and Pradeep Bandekar
Lara Dutta gave birth to a girl this January.
The actress, who'd shed oodles of weight for her film Blue, was just as glamorous when she posed at her baby shower on December 12.
Konkona Sen Sharma
Photographs: Konkona Sen Sharma on the cover of Ok Magazine
Konkona Sen Sharma showed off her baby bump on the cover of OK! Magazine's April 2011 issue, though the photograph was shot before her delivery on March 15.
Konkona was nine months pregnant when she posed for the picture.
Tara Sharma
Before the delivery of her first baby (Tara has two sons Zen and Kai), Tara did a photo shoot showing off her baby bump.
Incidentally, the actress shot for a film Suno Na during her pregnancy and she played a pregnant lady in it.
Kajol
Photographs: Paresh Gandhi and Pradeep Bandekar
Kajol gave birth to her second child, a son, on September 13, 2010.
The actress made an appearance in June 2010 at the book launch of legendary photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha's book Chehre, when she was six months pregnant.
Karisma Kapoor
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar
Karisma Kapoor was clicked in February 2010 when Dr Ramesh Agarwal of Lilvati hospital threw a reception party to celebrate the wedding of his daughter Rashi.
She was due to give birth to her second baby -- son Kian Raj Kapoor -- who was born on March 12, 2010.
Amrita Arora
Photographs: A scene from the film Kambakht Ishq and Sanjay Sawant
Actress Amrita Arora Ladak gave birth to her son Azaan on February 5, 2010. But before that, she was seen at the Lakme Fashion week when she was five months pregnant.
Maanyata Dutt
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar
Maanyata Dutt was six months pregnant with her twins but that did not keep her from attending her husband Sanjay Dutt's film Lamhaa's premiere on July 15, 2010.
She became mother to a boy named Shahraan and a girl named Iqra on October 21 the same year.
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