Kiran Rao and Aamir Khan, who got married in 2005, separated in August 2021. In a recent interview with Zoom, Kiran, who has been occupied with promoting her upcoming Laapataa Ladies, talked about needing to correct people when they refer to her as ‘Aamir Khan’s wife’. She mentioned that ‘everyone perceives her only as a wife or an ex-wife’, but if she didn’t have ‘a strong sense of self’, she would have ‘felt down by being only seen as a wife’.
Kiran Rao said that the tag hasn’t left her. She said, “I am routinely asked, even now at the airport… people go like, ‘You are Aamir Khan’s wife, right?’ They might not even know my name, but the association is directly with Aamir, and I have become accustomed to that. Though now I have to say, ‘Ex-wife’. It doesn’t bother me honestly, because personally, I have always had my own interests, my own friends, and my own life, which I actually actively worked at having. I think for anyone in marriage, it is very important to have their space and identity.”
Kiran Rao, who has a son named Azad Rao Khan with Aamir, said that working with Aamir at Aamir Khan Productions for Laapataa Ladies has always been easy. “He is very welcoming of opinions, he looks at me as a creative partner. It’s very heartening, because though everybody sees me as a wife or an ex-wife, if I didn’t have a very strong sense of self I would have been depressed by being reduced to just a wife. But, I have quite a laugh about it, honestly.”
Recently, during News18 India Chaupal, speaking about working together after their divorce, Aamir had said, “Yeh koi doctor ne kaha hai ke divorce ho jata hai toh aap foran dushman ho jaate hai? Yeh meri khushnaseebi hai ke mere zindagi mein Kiran aayi aur humara safar bahut hee fulfilling raha mere liye. Bahut kuch banaya humne saath mein, personally and professionally aur agge bhi hum saath mein hee hai. Hum insaani aur jaazbaati taur pe jude huye hai aur humesha rahenge. We are like a family.” Kiran added that they enjoy working with each other.
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