Kareena Kapoor explains why son Taimur keeps saying 'no pictures' to paparazzi

Being a start kid is no easy feat and the two-year-old has realised it a little sooner than expected

Being a star-kid comes with its share of woes and advantages. You are born with a silver spoon in your mouth but your life becomes a spectacle for everybody from childhood. Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan are struggling with similar issues as Taimur is seen more and more in the public eye.

Kareena spoke to Pinkvilla about how the couple manages the paparazzi. “Taimur tries to keep cool and calm. He requests them to give him his space and that’s the only thing he can do, being a public figure. I don’t want him to grow up in a way where I’m covering my child’s face. I think that would scar him even more. He would be ‘Why are you doing this?’ That’s not normal.”

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. PHOTO COURTESY: DNA INDIA

Taimur is not so fond of the camera anyway, “Even if we want to take pictures, Taimur sometimes says ‘No photos’. He has learnt to say that. He’s constantly being watched and he realises he’s being clicked now. This culture has been there for a while now and nobody is asking anyone not to do their job. But we are just asking for a little space because they are children and we want them to grow up in an environment that is safe and secure, where they can be the way they want to be.”

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On the other hand, there are enough thinks that Kareen has been told not to do in life.

“I shouldn’t get married, I shouldn’t become a mother. Even comments today. They’re like ‘oh, why is she working, she should be with Taimur or why is she doing this, he should be with him..I mean who does all this and who says all this? Nobody knows my equation with him. I think, as a working woman, if my child knows his mother is a working woman, his respect for women will grow tenfold. I want to make a man of him; I want him to know that. He should know both his parents have worked really hard to give him a life and he should respect that.”

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