Actress Pooja Chopra shares an emotional account of how her mother refused to end her pregnancy after her family pressured her because the baby was a girl. Speaking on Rajeev Khandelwal’s show “Tum Ho Naa,” Chopra says her father told her mother that the pregnancy should be terminated when she was very early in the pregnancy. She recalls that her mother did not agree, walked away from the marriage, and raised Pooja and her sister as a single parent.

Chopra describes her mother as her “biggest superstar,” saying that she never felt inferior to a boy and that her mother encouraged her confidence in becoming what she wanted to be. She also credits her mother’s sacrifices and determination for enabling her education and later success. Chopra’s comments are presented as a reflection on her family’s struggle and her mother’s role in her life. Both outlets describe the same core claims: pressure to abort due to gender, the mother’s refusal, and the family’s subsequent single-parent upbringing of the daughters.