By Hindustan Times
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who's expecting a baby, will store her child's stem cells. "Stem cell banking gives me the reassurance for my baby's health. By banking stem cells, my child can have more medical options within the future," Shetty said in a press release. The Baazigar
actor said that is probably the most precious and private gift, she and her husband Raj Kundra could think of, for his or her little one.
Gearing up for probably the most exciting phase of her life, motherhood, the 36-year-old said, "Motherhood is the most productive thing that may happen to a woman, it brings a way of responsibility".
Shilpa would now even be actively taken with creating awareness among would-be parents at the importance of stem cell banking because the brand ambassador of CordLife, Asia's largest stem cell banking network.
With tremendous potential in curing critical diseases, stem cell therapy is considered the way forward for medical science.
Stem cells extracted from the cord blood have positively treated conditions like leukemia, lymphoma, cerebral palsy and thalassemia major.
"As someone who's looked upon as a task model and as an excessively successful woman in her own right, her decision to bank her baby's stem cells would have the correct influence and impact at the would-be parents," Meghnath Roy Chowdhury, MD of CordLife said.
The actress who's now one of the crucial co-owners of the IPL franchise cricket team Rajasthan Royals, had shot to global fame after winning the British Celebrity Big Brother TV show in 2007.
