"The outspoken actor plans to stay vocal about the values she believes in, despite the any naysayers that try to stop her."

The last thing I said ‘screw it’ to was the pressure to be married by a specific time. You know, the checklist that women often bear the burden of...to find a partner at any cost and ‘settle down’ by a certain age. This pressure never bothered me until I hit my mid 30s, and suddenly it became a thing, a discussion point, especially when everyone around seemed to be getting married and having babies. I think a lot of South Asian women— and women around the world—feel this pressure to reach certain milestones by certain points in their lives. And they could be extremely successful and living full lives otherwise, but these expectations around marriage remain. So I went through a phase of being very self-conscious about the fact that how I am single, and how there is absolutely no-one on the horizon. And even though I come from a very liberal, progressive family, I felt like I had failed my parents in some way. It bothered me a lot, and then finally, I was like...screw it!