Malaika Arora recalls people telling her to not drop Khan surname after divorce: It did have benefits

Malaika Arora precocious talked astir her popularity successful Bollywood being associated with the Khan household arsenic she was joined to Arbaaz Khan. Malaika and Arbaaz parted ways successful May 2017 aft nineteen years of marriage. Talking astir her determination to driblet the ‘Khan’ surname and spell backmost to her maiden one, Malaika recalled radical telling her that the surname came with a batch of ‘weightage.’ Also read: Malaika Arora attends Rhea Kapoor's day enactment with Arjun Kapoor

Malaika Arora and Arbaaz Khan parted ways successful 2017.

Malaika and Arbaaz got joined successful 1998. Their separation announcement came successful March 2016, and was finalised the adjacent year. They person a lad together, Arhaan Khan, whom they are co-parenting.

Malaika astatine the India Today Conclave 2023 was asked astir her occurrence being attributed to the Khan family. She replied, “It did person a batch of benefits successful my beingness but I don't deliberation I could remainder connected the information that I had a celebrated surname. I don't deliberation that was my endow to everything I wanted to bash successful my life. It did unfastened up a batch of doors for maine but I deliberation astatine the extremity of the time I person to enactment irrespective of my joined surname. And, I had to enactment hard and beryllium myself each azygous time of my beingness to enactment successful the game. And, the time I had the surname sanction and I went backmost to my maiden sanction I inactive continued to work, marque a difference.”

“I had loads of radical archer maine that I americium making the biggest mistake of dropping the surname. A batch of radical telling maine 'you don't realise the weightage a surname has.' I person a batch of respect for my ex-inlaws and ex-family, they person fixed maine a batch of love. I person a kid, and I americium precise overmuch portion of the family, but for me, I needed to basal connected my ain 2 feet...and not conscionable astir the surname. For maine being capable to driblet the surname and going backmost to my maiden surname, it conscionable gave maine a consciousness of self. That conscionable made maine consciousness I could instrumentality connected oregon bash thing successful life,” Malaika added.

During the event, Malaika besides touched upon raising Arhan and co-parenting with Arbaaz. She besides talked astir her vocation and however she managed to enactment applicable adjacent aft years successful the industry. Malaika was past seen successful her world show, Moving In With Malaika.