3 min readNew DelhiJun 30, 2026 05:47 PM IST Sameera Reddy started her career in the movies in the early 2000s but by the mid-2010s, she withdrew from films after she married businessman Akshai Varde in 2014. Sameera started her career as a mom influencer after she welcomed her kids, and it was during the lockdown that her mother-in-law, Manjri Varde, joined her social media shenanigans. At a recent event, Sameera shared that when she met Manjri, she was a divorced woman who was bothered about the fact that her ex-husband had moved on and gotten remarried. It was then that she made it her mission to empower her mother-in-law so she could be self-reliant. ‘It’s not easy to be single’ At a FICCI FLO event in Bengaluru, Sameera Reddy shared, “I am going to say this openly today. When I met her, she was divorced and my father-in-law had moved on and remarried, and in my head, I always knew, though she never said it, I always knew that it was something that bothered …