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DYK Deepika Padukone's Parents Prakash & Ujjala Are Cousins? Fans React 'It Surprised Me...'
Deepika Padukone's Parents Are Cousins: Do you know that Deepika Padukone's parents are cousins? We all know who Prakash Padukone is. He is India's former badminton player who was ranked No. 1 in 1980. Prakash is also the first Indian to have won the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was also awarded the Arjuna Award and Padma Shri. But did famed Bollywood star Deepika Padukone's father Prakash Padukone marry his own cousin? Let us take a look at what truth is:
Deepika Padukone's Parents Prakash & Ujjala Are Second Cousins?
Marrying cousins has been a long part of South India's culture. But, it still was a shock to many when it was revealed that Deepika Padukone's parents Prakash and Ujjala are allegedly "second cousins." A user took uploaded the screenshot to the Reddit thread with title, "Deepika Padukone parents are cousin?" This thread instantly garnered everyone's attention.
A person commented on the thread, "I have known this since many years. It surprised me a little when I found out, but not a lot, as I was aware of consanguineous marriages among communities in south India." Another wrote, "Marrying within family is still very prevalent in the south india." Times Now reports Prakash Padukone saying in an interview, "I got married to my second cousin Ujjala soon after and we moved to Copenhagen as I found a job there and lived there till 1986 when Deepika was born." Another reacted, To each their own but personally cousin marriages will always give me the ick." Well, even though many does not understand it now but back in the days of Deepika's parents it was pretty common to marry second cousins even the first ones.
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