Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is a doting and protective father to his three children — Aryan, Suhana and AbRam. And he is a reasonable man. So when his daughter’s picture on a beach went viral, he chose to explain his point of view rather than scream and shout about it.
When Suhana’s picture in a bikini with her younger brother AbRam went viral, SRK reached out to media outlets to take it down. In an interview with Huffington Post India, the actor for the first time opened up about how he dealt with seeing headlines like ‘SRK’s daughter flaunts her body’ splashed everywhere.
Is it a little cheap? Maybe I felt it was. I reached out nicely and said, dude, your website is not going to run on my daughter’s bikini body, can you please take it out? People saw where I was coming from. My daughter was a little awkward about it. She’s 16, yaar. And the headlines some sites use are… wow. We’re very liberal people and even had a laugh about it. But it’s still awkward.SRK in an interview with Huffington Post.
He said he did that to protect her from his own stardom, which was the reason it made headlines in the first place.
But when my daughter’s pictures were splashed everywhere online and when I jumped to get it contained, I wasn’t protecting her from the media — I was protecting her from me. It’s my stardom that was the reason that picture made it to the news — it wouldn’t have if she wasn’t SRK’s daughter. There could be someone running naked and that wouldn’t be news.SRK in an interview with Huffington Post.
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