Renuka Shahane is an Indian actress, best known for her role as Pooja Choudhary Nath in the cult classic film Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. The actress has often used social media to create awareness about matters important to her.
Recently, she opened up about her troubles with menstruation in her childhood. During an interaction, the popular TV and film actress recalled that she got her period when she was 10 years old. Read on!
Renuka Shahane said she has spent most of her life with periods
Talking about menstruation and the taboos around it in society on the We Are Yuva podcast, Renuka Shahane revealed that she got her periods when she was 10 years old. Sharing how it affected her life, the Tribhanga writer and director said, “I am 58 today and I have lived with periods most of my life.”
She said that due to her biological cycle, she enjoyed her childhood physically for a very short time. Since she was not able to understand what was going on in her body, her mother helped her.
“I was lucky because in my case, my mother made a diagram to explain how it worked. I was lucky because at my home, they used to discuss all this very openly,” she said, adding that she didn’t really understand what was happening and the reason behind it. However, Shahane was reassured by people around her that it wasn’t something bad.
Renuka Shahane talks about feeling lonely in school
In the same interview, the 3 Storeys actress recalled feeling lonely in school, as she couldn’t talk to her friends about her periods. She said that none of her friends in her class got periods for the next three years.
So, she had to wait until she got her period to share her feelings. “For them, it was three years later. At that point, I felt very alone. You feel like you can’t talk to anyone about it.” But luckily, she was able to talk to her mother about it.
However, he admitted that it did have some impact on the children psychologically as they were growing up in a way that no one knew about. Also, no one was talking about it in school
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