{"id":15739,"date":"2013-07-03T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:40:13","slug":"shah-rukh-khan-welcomes-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15739","title":{"rendered":"Shah Rukh Khan welcomes baby boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan became a father for the third time at the end of May, Mumbai officials said Wednesday, amid a controversy over whether the actor and his wife had undergone an illegal prenatal sex test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman at Mumbai&#8217;s municipal body said <strong>they have received confirmation that a baby boy was born in May<\/strong> in a northern city suburb to Khan, 47, and his wife Gauri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andheri hospital has informed the BMC health authorities that a boy was born on May 27, 2013,&#8221; said Vijay Khabale Patil, a spokesman for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The father&#8217;s name was Shah Rukh Khan and the mother was Gauri Khan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Khans, already parents to a teenage son and daughter, have made no announcements on the matter but it is standard procedure for hospitals to give details of births in the city to the BMC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The baby is widely reported to have been born by surrogacy<\/strong>, an arrangement in which a woman carries the child of another couple.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011, <strong>fellow Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan and his wife also had a baby boy using a surrogate mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The news that the birth was as far back as May means the child was born before rumors surfaced in the media that the Khans were expecting a boy, raising suspicions of an illegal sex test on the fetus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On seeing the reports, the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association wrote to the health officials demanding an investigation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India bans sex tests because of a preference for sons in the country. <\/strong>Female abortions has led to a major population imbalance between the sexes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khan, star of &#8220;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge&#8221; (&#8220;The Braveheart will get the Bride&#8221;) and &#8220;My Name Is Khan&#8221;, topped the first Forbes India Celebrity 100 list earlier this year with annual estimated earnings of $37.7 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan became a father for the third time at the end of May, Mumbai officials said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2111,1008],"tags":[2117],"class_list":["post-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sex-and-health","category-sex-in-the-city","tag-sex-in-the-city"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan became a father for the third time at the end of May, Mumbai officials said","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Sex &amp; 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