She was at the peak of her career when she decided to step into motherhood, but tennis star Sania Mirza, who is due to deliver next month, always believed in moving forward in her life.

For her, pregnancy doesn't mean taking things away from "what you are or who you are" as she says that one needs to understand that pregnancy doesn't make you handicapped, but empowers a woman in many different ways. In an interview to IANS over phone from Hyderabad, Sania said her profession "fortunately or unfortunately" required her to stop doing what she was doing to plan her family when she was at her career's peak.