Daughter of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan, Shweta Bachchan didn't follow in the footsteps of her superstar parents to join the film industry. She is a popular columnist, author, and former model. Moreover, Shweta is seen on her daughter, Navya Naveli Nanda's podcast, What The Hell Navya 2, alongside her mother, Jaya. However, not many know that Big B's darling daughter, Shweta, was an assistant teacher in a kindergarten.
Amitabh Bachchan's daughter, Shweta, once worked as an assistant teacher in a kindergarten. Yes, you read it right! The star kid only earned Rs. 3000 as her monthly salary. Once, Shweta Bachchan revealed an interesting anecdote from her initial days in Delhi after her marriage to Nikhil Nanda and shared how difficult it was for her to manage her expenses. She stated that she used to work as an assistant teacher at a kindergarten and earned around Rs. 3,000 a month. In her words:
"I was borrowing money from Abhishek Bachchan not just in college but in school also... for buying food, and food. When you are in boarding school, it (food) is the number one commodity you can't live without... I was never educated on all this (managing finances). Then when I got married, and I was in Delhi, I had a job as an assistant teacher in a kindergarten, Learning Tree. There I got a salary, I think it was Rs 3000 a month. I put it in a bank."
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Now, a Reddit user took to the discussion platform and shared a screengrab of a social media post which highlighted the deets about Shweta Bachchan's previous job and salary. Soon after, many other netizens flooded the comment section and started reacting to it. A user penned, "Why even bother though? Some poorer person could have gotten the job." Another commented, "Ye shenshaah ki beti hai...haaiiyyn...." A third user wrote, "So hardworking so middle class."
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In one of the episodes of What The Hell Navya, Shweta Bachchan shared her perception of academic failures and said that she never cared about her children's academic results. She added that she wants her children to first become good human beings and never care if they aren't A-grade students. Shweta mentioned that she doesn't want Navya and Agastya to be number one, but at least they should work hard. The doting mother added that then she will be completely satisfied with whatever result comes, as she herself has failed in many subjects in school.
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In 2018, Shweta Bachchan turned author with the novel, Paradise Towers. However, she couldn't succeed in her writing career and also couldn't take the bad reviews for the book well. Talking about dealing with failure, in one of the episodes of What The Hell Navya, Shweta said that it took her a long time to overcome that, and she stopped writing. She added:
“I wrote a book. It’s not like it made it became a bestseller or anything, but I’m not that person who can just bounce back up and say, ‘Okay, I am going to…’. I take it personally if there are bad reviews. I can’t see it objectively that okay someone may not have liked it. It took me a very long time…like I just stopped writing and it made me doubt myself.”
Shweta Bachchan got married to industrialist, Nikhil Nanda in 1997, and the two are blessed with two kids, Navya Naveli Nanda and Agastya Nanda. Shweta was just 21 years old when she tied the knot with Nikhil, who belongs to the Kapoor family. However, after a few years of her marriage, Shweta left Delhi and came back to Mumbai to live with her parents, raising a lot of questions about her married life. Not only this, if rumours are to be believed, Shweta and Nikhil are separated but aren’t divorced to save the Bachchan clan’s reputation.
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