MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is pregnant with her first child, her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
"I am going to become a grandfather Aishwarya expecting. So happy and thrilled!!!" Bachchan said, confirming the subject of weeks of speculation.
Rai, 37, a former Miss World, has been married to actor Abhishek Bachchan for more than four years and the star couple had been fending off pregnancy rumors in the past year.
On Tuesday, Rai's media manager confirmed the pregnancy but did not give more details.
Rai, who often features on "most beautiful" lists, has worked in several Hollywood and Bollywood films but has taken on noticeably fewer projects recently.
She has no films under production but has signed up to filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's "Heroine," which was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
(Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar)
