Malaika Arora recently opened up about her relationship with former husband Arbaaz Khan in an appearance on Kareena Kapoor’s radio show What Women Want. Speaking about her marriage and subsequent divorce the actor said,
“We did think about a lot of things and weighed every single pro and con. And then we decided, it’s better off that we move our separate ways because we’d just be better people. Because we were two people in a situation making each other extremely unhappy which was impacting everybody else’s life around us.”Malaika Arora, Actor
The decision to end their marriage of almost 19 years was not an easy one, said Malaika. “Nobody really encourages you to go right ahead. Even the night before the divorce, I had my family sit with me and ask me, are you sure? I heard this all along and perhaps rightly so because these are people who worry and care for you,” she told Kareena.
Addressing women who find themselves in a similar situation Malaika added,“If you are in an unhappy marriage and that’s what you decide to do you should do it with a lot of dignity, self-respect. Don’t let anybody tell you that you are any less of a woman. With me, I could sense that a lot of people were like, how the hell did you pull it off?
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