Calling her eldest her “first love”, Sushmita Sen took to Instagram to share an emotional note celebrating her daughter Renee’s 20th birthday. “The first one to ever call me Maa...a long & tough labour before she was born from my heart! Happppyyyyyy Birthday Renee Shona, We are 20!!! what a journey its been... and how many more exciting adventures await!!! Embrace them all and always remember Alisah & Maa love you like crazzzyyyyyy!! #youaremydestiny Enjoy my first love... all our kisses & blessings, #duggadugga I love you, Maa & Alisah,” she wrote alongside a series of photos of herself, Renee and her younger daughter Alisah.
Sushmita adopted Renee in 2000, at the age of 24, followed by her second daughter Alisah in 2010. The trio recently marked another milestone – Alisah’s 10th birthday – and celebrated both occasions with a scuba diving trip to the Maldives.
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Speaking at an event in Hyderabad in August, Sushmita called her decision to adopt children a “the wisest decision” she made and not an act of charity but one of “self-preservation. “In the natural birth, the mother and the child connect through the umbilical cord but in adoption, the mother and the child are connected by this higher power, a connection that you cannot cut off. I have had the privilege of experiencing it twice. To become a mother who has given birth from the heart,” she said.
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