Samantha was planning to have kids months before divorce annoucement

Samantha Ruth Prabhu has been the target of various cruel rumours since then. People are calling her opportunist, selfish and what not. One of the most horrid rumours to do the rounds is that she did not want to start a family and had abortions. This is indeed saddening that people are cooking up such malicious gossip in such a sensitive phase of her life.

Now, her close friend has come to her defence saying that Samantha Ruth Prabhu was indeed planning to start a family and wanted to devote her full-time to the future baby. The producer of Shaakuntalam, Neelima Guna has opened up in an statement. She said, "Last year, when my father director Gunasekhar Garu and I approached Samantha for Shaakuntalam, she loved the story and was very excited by it. But she told us that if she were to accept the role, the shooting should be completed by maximum July/August 2021. She informed me that she was planning to start a family and that it would be her priority."

Neelima Guna further says that Samantha was apprehensive as period films do take up more time than needed. She says, "But we told her that due to the pre-production and proper planning, we would be able to accomplish the entire shoot within the time period and there would be no tensions whatsoever. As soon as she heard that, she was very happy and on board this. She told me that this would be her last film and that after this, she wants to take a long break and have children, plan her family. Through the schedules also, we never took a break since we wanted to accommodate this request from her side."

https://www.bollywoodlife.com/south-gossip/samantha-ruth-prabhus-close-friend-slams-abortion-rumours-says-she-was-planning-to-start-a-family-1928805/

Would request the mods to change Samantha's tag to her original name, Samantha Ruth Prabhu. She is no longer "Samantha Akkineni"

Declaring these rumours as patently false, Samantha’s friend tells TNM that they are the opposite of what happened.

“After Family Man 2, her phone would not stop ringing but she did not take any of those calls because she was planning a baby,” the friend says, “She could have gone to Mumbai and done whatever she wanted with her life at that time, but she said no. This is why all of this makes me so furious, all this speculation. I don't know how she's dealing with it.”

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/samantha-was-planning-baby-abortion-rumours-absurd-friends-tnm-156292

Wait so the decision to divorce is really recent?

Sad to hear

I hope she gets good projects to divert her mind

Originally posted by: Chameli_billi

But with who?

Kya danger sawal hai *Hawww gif*

And the Family Man 2 worked for her and got her noticed on Bollywood. It's no surprise and not shameful if she wanted to postpone having a baby.

Originally posted by: Maraka_Musso89

And the Family Man 2 worked for her and got her noticed on Bollywood. It's no surprise and not shameful if she wanted to postpone having a baby.

This! Tbh, I am not fully aware of Samantha's marriage and divorce. But this sentence clicked with me.

It is not easy balancing a career and family as a woman. Sometimes, women have to make choices and pick one. I hate that choosing family mostly gets applauded while choosing career mostly gets shamed. Can't we just accept people's choices and support them.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

This! Tbh, I am not fully aware of Samantha's marriage and divorce. But this sentence clicked with me.

It is not easy balancing a career and family as a woman. Sometimes, women have to make choices and pick one. I hate that choosing family mostly gets applauded while choosing career mostly gets shamed. Can't we just accept people's choices and support them.

Originally posted by: Maraka_Musso89

And the Family Man 2 worked for her and got her noticed on Bollywood. It's no surprise and not shameful if she wanted to postpone having a baby.

Did you read what her friend said? Her phone was ringing off the hook after Family man released but she let all that go because her original plans involved having kids and she wasn't going to give up on that.

She's had 12 years of a rich and fulfilling career. Besides, we live at a time where women work even after becoming a mother. I refuse to believe career is the reason she postponed babies and decided to let go of her marriage. Sounds far-fetched and not something Sam will do.