“There’s only one live-in relationship in my life. The one I share with my daughter, Renee,” said Sushmita Sen, who is on the threshold of her 33rd birthday. Renee, incidentally, just turned nine. Finding a soul mate is not an issue any more, today it’s adoptive daughter Renee whose concerns matter more than anything else. But Sushmita dislikes Renee being called her adopted daughter. “We two girls, mother and daughter, are a part of one whole complete and self dependent unit. We don’t need a third person to make our bonding better or stronger,” said the former Miss Universe.
The men in Sushmita’s life have always taken to Renee. Men who have moved on, or been asked to move on, have continued to care for Renee independent of their severed relationship with the mother. Sushmita laughed, “Why do I seem to be the one who has moved on, while the men in my life continue to hold on to the lapels of the relationship? I don’t hold any grudges. I don’t even hold on to the past. I let time heal all wounds within me and hope that one day those who hold grudges against me will also be freed of the baggage of the past.”
