Mumbai: Bollywood actress Sunny Leone shared a heartwarming post on social media to mark her daughter Nisha Kaur Webber’s 10th birthday. The actress expressed her affection for her eldest child and celebrated the occasion with an intimate family gathering at home.

Sharing a series of adorable pictures from the celebration, Sunny captioned the post: “Happy 10th birthday. I love you so so much. You're a bright shining star sent from heaven. We all are so proud of you,” tagging Nisha in the post.

The images showed Sunny, her husband Daniel Webber, and their three children, Nisha, Noah, and Asher, gathered around a birthday cake. Nisha, wearing a casual t-shirt with a pink sash reading “Birthday Girl,” smiled as her parents and brothers helped her cut the cake and fed each other.

Fans and fellow celebrities quickly flooded the comments, wishing Nisha on her special day. For context, Nisha was adopted by Sunny and Daniel in 2017 from an orphanage in Latur, Maharashtra. A year later, the couple welcomed twin boys, Asher and Noah, via surrogacy.

Sunny and Daniel’s journey to parenthood was far from straightforward. Speaking on actress Soha Ali Khan’s podcast, Sunny revealed the emotional challenges they faced.

“We had four girls and two boys, but that didn't work out. One day, she's (surrogate) like, 'I am pregnant. But we found out that the sack was blank. The baby was not going to grow,” Sunny explained. She described how difficult it was to cope with repeated setbacks. “We were like, 'Did we do something? Does God not love us? Why is this happening? And why can't we just adopt a little girl?”

Sunny also spoke about the adoption process and how Nisha, then just 18 months old, entered their lives. “In that time of losing those four girls, we applied for adoption. We tell Nisha that she chose us. You picked us as parents. We didn't pick you, obviously. Nisha was just 18 months old, but she was the size of a one-year-old. But I see her for the first time, and it's like, "That's my baby!!"

“There was an instant connection. It's like instant, like she's mine and not anybody else's now. That's Nisha Kaur Weber!” Sunny added.

IANS