'Yes, I'm married & pregnant'

Mahima Chaudhary has finally accepted that she is married to her brother's best friend, the noted architect Bobby Mukherjee. The icing on the cake is also that she is pregnant; the baby is due in a week.

Deliriously happy, and her now-on, then-off career in Bollywood is an inconsequential part of her life in comparison to this beautiful phase.

"You put on lots of weight. But I must say I look well endowed," laughed Mahima, adding, "I think all mothers-to-be look most beautiful when they are expecting." Mahima surely looks happy what with her skin glowing and her emotions running high.

Aakansha Mahima's sister has come down from Florida with her old maternity clothes and her little son's baby outfits as it is a custom, that the newborn is not allowed to wear anything new for 15 days. Mahima, speaks expectantly , "Bobby wants a daughter. So do I. But it's fine if we are blessed with a son."

The rumours of conceiving out of wedlock were denied with a laugh.

She legally married Bobby last year on March 19, in Las Vegas. He was earlier married but divorced when they met.

They married at a hoteliers' conference in Vegas where she was making an appearance and marriage wasn't part of the plan. With chopped off long tresses and a bob cut she was simply enjoying the holiday and attending the conference. Mahima called her sister and a few friends over for the wedding.

She was married there amongst about 10,000 Indian hoteliers and their families, and nobody had an inkling. I The couple had a registered marriage, but later, on March 23, they got married according to Hindu rites with Mahima dressed up like a Bengali bride in a sari with red border and red and white Bengali bangles.

The two will soon be shifting to their new house in Bandra.