Kareena Kapoor has condemned the criticism she and her husband, actor Saif Ali Khan, received for naming their sons Taimur and Jehangir. The couple found themselves within the middle of controversies after numerous social media users attacked them after erroneously believing that they’d named their sons after tyrants In a recent interview, Kareena addressed the trolling and said that she felt ‘terrible’ that her family and youngsters were subjected thereto .

“Honestly, these are names that we just liked; it’s nothing else. they’re beautiful names and they’re beautiful boys. It’s unfathomable why somebody would troll children. I feel terrible about it, but I even have to only focus and obtain through it. I can’t be watching my life through the trolls,” she said, speaking with The Guardian.

Many people on the web believed that their older son Taimur’s name was inspired by a Turkic conqueror, Timur, who invaded Delhi in 1398. The heavy criticism made Kareena and Saif consider renaming him Four years later, when the couple welcomed their second son, they chose to stay his name covert for several months before it had been revealed in her self-help book, Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Pregnancy Bible. The reveal caused another uproar online with a particular section of the web accusing the few naming Jehangir after the 17th-century Mughal emperor.

Besides Kareena, her sister-in-law Saba Ali Khan has also defended the names of the couple’s children. On Thursday, Saba shared an image of Kareena and Jehangir from their recent trip to the Maldives and wrote, “When a mother carries her child within her and provides him or her life… only she and therefore the father…are allowed to make a decision … who how and what the kid will grow as…And the name “No one…no one else, including other relations , who may gladly suggest, have a say on anything!” she added.