Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is pregnant

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is expecting a baby. She is known for her role in the hit film Bride & Prejudice now-a-days. It will be the first child for the actress in the age of 37 as well as her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan, 35, who remarried in 2007.

The news was broken by Abhishek’s father, actor and producer Amitabh Bachchan, who tweeted yesterday: “NEWS NEWS NEWS! I’ll be a grandfather. Aishwarya expecting … So happy and excited!” Aishwarya Rai with AbhishekAmitabh later wrote that the news has been confirmed. Aishwarya and her husband, who attended the Oscars ceremony this year in Hollywood, known as “super couples” in his native India, after they both starred in several hit films in Bollywood.

The actress has won two Filmfare Awards (the Hindi equivalent of the Oscars) and crossed over into English-speaking cinema, appearing in 2004 hit Bride & Prejudice and The Pink Panther 2 alongside Steve Martin in 2009.