Esha Deol opened up about the challenges of co-parenting as she is now a single parent. Esha and her ex-husband Bharat Takhtani got divorced in 2024.
Hema Malini and Dharmendra’s daughter Esha Deol announced her divorce from Bharat Takhtani in 2024 and now, in a recent interview, Esha has opened up about the challenges of single parenting and how she is coping with co-parenting with Bharat.
Esha shared that though single parenthood can be “overwhelming” at times, she has ensured that her daughters are always her priority. She added that the relationship between parents may change but that change should not cause distress to the children.
She told The Quint that her daughters mean the world to her and added that the relationship between two individuals can end but “when children are involved, it is important to keep your ego aside and set boundaries.
At the end of the day, we are parents to these beautiful children. Let’s give them the best and then I think, when you decide to do that, when you are like this, the other person has to… melt down, if that is possible. And you switch roles. And you co-parent.”
Esha added that if “two individuals have decided something, don’t let the children suffer and keep your ego aside and try to sort it out with these new roles that we have taken in each other’s lives.”
Esha stressed that parents should continue to work as a unit for the sake of the children. She said, “For your children you have to be one unit. That unit cannot break. Maybe the other unit has broken, but for your children, be that one unit. I think it is very difficult for many people, but if you try, I think, keep trying. Don’t give it up.”
When Esha was asked about taking a break from her career after embracing motherhood, the actress said that she did what “every girl wants to do.”
She said, “My break was solely to start a family and I embraced motherhood twice, so it is my choice as a woman, I want to give that time to my children and it is right too,” she said and added, “I always wanted to do what every girl wants to do – get married, settle down, have children and I am still doing my work wholeheartedly and for both my daughters, they enjoy the fact that their mother is an actress.”
Esha Deol said about being a single parent after divorce from Bharat Takhtani: ‘Don’t let the kids suffer, be a unit’
