Sunny Leone opens up about alternatives to pregnancy on Soha Ali Khan`s podcast

Do I want to become a parent or pregnant?’ That question formed the crux of Sunny Leone’s conversation with Soha Ali Khan, who invited the actor as a guest on her new podcast, All About Her. For Khan, it has been one of the episodes that stayed with her long after the recording was complete, as Leone — who adopted her daughter Nisha Kaur Weber in 2017, and welcomed her twins, Asher and Noah, via in vitro fertilisation [IVF] and surrogacy in 2018 — opened up about the stigma around different routes of attaining parenthood. 

Khan shares, “The episode is centred on IVF, surrogacy, and adoption. Besides Sunny, we had Dr Kiran Coelho. Women put so much pressure on themselves to become pregnant because they want to have children. There are options, but we don’t talk about or celebrate those options. There is taboo when it comes to IVF, surrogacy, and adoption.”

With the episode set to stream in the coming weeks, Khan is eager for couples to listen to Leone’s “empowering” view of parenthood. The host believes their conversation can help people who are trying for a family embrace options other than pregnancy. “It was nice to have somebody talk about the other ways [to embrace parenthood] in such a positive and empowering way. The conversation will open doors for many people to think, ‘I have tried naturally for a while. Maybe I can start thinking about [options].’ At the end of the day, do you want to be a parent? Or do you want to be pregnant? They are two very different experiences,” states Khan.

2017
When Sunny Leone and her husband Daniel Weber adopted their daughter Nisha Kaur Weber

2018
The couple welcomed their twins, Noah and Asher Singh Weber, via IVF and surrogacy