Baby born to Bollywood star and wife through surrogate
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed that he's the father of a new baby amid feverish media speculation.
Talking to reporters at a news conference to promote the music from
his latest film, Khan said late Wednesday that the news was "extremely
personal."
There's been much speculation in Indian media over the last few weeks
that Khan and his wife, Gauri, became parents to a baby boy via a
surrogate and that the actor knew the baby's gender ahead of the birth —
an act that is illegal in India to prevent the practice of aborting
female fetuses due to a cultural preference for sons.
Khan did not give any details Wednesday and did not mention the
baby's gender, but said he would share more publicly when the
speculation settles down.
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Khan
said he wanted everyone, including government officials who are
investigating whether he knew the baby's gender before the birth, to
work with the same "alacrity in finding out and doing the enthusiastic
investigation they are doing upon my baby upon other things which they
should be lending their thoughts to right now."
"When the sad part gets over, I will share everything with you," Khan said.
Khan and his wife have two other children, a son and a daughter, both
in their teens. The 47-year-old actor is busy promoting his latest
film, Chennai Express, which is set to be released in August.
In 2011, actor Aamir Khan spoke openly about how he and his wife,
filmmaker Kiran Rao, had struggled with fertility issues before they
decided to have a baby using a gestational surrogate.
