MUMBAI : In their early 20s, Malaika Arora and Arbaaz Khan met and fell in love. They got married in December 1998, and in November 2002 they welcomed Arhaan, their first child together. However, when the pair announced their divorce after 19 years of marriage, their followers were taken aback. Additionally, Malaika disclosed on her program Moving In With Malaika that she had proposed to Arbaaz.

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Malaika now discussed co-parenting Arhaan with her ex-husband in a recent interview with the popular magazine.

“For whatever it’s worth, touch wood, we’ve found a great balance now,” Malaika said. “Perhaps initially it was a little tricky. And rightly so — because that’s just how life is. We both knew that irrespective of everything else and what may have transpired between two adults, it should never reflect on a child — and we have figured out a very congenial way of co-parenting.”

Talking about her parenting strategy, Malaika said, “I’ve said this before; I’d rather have Arhaan be my friend — where he can feel comfortable talking to me about anything. I would hate it if he felt he couldn’t come to me or had to think 10 times before speaking his mind, wondering whether his mum is going to completely flip out! I like the fact that he can come tell me anything if he wants — and that goes for my nieces and nephews too. I love feeling cool enough to hear them out, give them a point of view and yet, let them feel they’re making their own decisions without forcing my ideas or thoughts onto them.”

Malaika had mentioned a few years prior that her family did not want her to proceed with the divorce.

“I think, sab ki pehli yehi raai hai ki mat karna. Koi aapko nahi kahega ki, ‘Haan, haan, please jayiye, kariye.’ That’s the first thing, ki aap soch samajh ke yeh decision lena. I went through the same thing,” the popular news portal quoted Malaika as saying on Kareena Kapoor Khan’s radio show.

Makeup artist Sshura Khan and Arbaaz Khan are now married. They got married in December 2023 in Mumbai at the residence of Arbaaz's sister Arpita. Actor Arjun Kapoor is whom Malaika is dating, though. Rumors are widespread that things are not going well between Arjun and Malaika.

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