Zeenat Aman is known for expressing her thoughts and she often shares the same on her social media. Recently, the veteran actress shared a post where she expressed the hardships she had to go through when she was left to raise her children alone. 

The post featured the portrait  pictures of the actress and she captioned it, “It would be dishonest of me to project a life of
uninterrupted glamour and composure. I know how it looks of course. Here is a woman who reached the pinnacle of stardom in her youth, and is now enjoying a renaissance in her old age. Sure, those much retold, often contorted, episodes of personal tragedy are widely known, but they're merely footnotes now. Little
stories that only serve to accentuate the heights one has achieved.
This then is a frank acknowledgment of the difficult phase. Those excruciating weeks that turned to months that turned to years. The time when the work dried up, the body aged, and one felt their relevance slip away. At first, there was the sheer relief of anonymity. But then came the fear of how to keep food on the table. With no husband to turn to, no sibling to lean on, and two helpless children to provide for, it was terrifyingly lonely.”

The post further read, Those were the years I took pretty much any
work that came my way. I did not have the luxury of discernment or whimsy. It was bone rattling drives to nondescript towns for event appearances, accommodation at no-star hotels with filthy sheets, trite renditions of "chura liya' in smelly halls, poorly drafted scripts that pushed me to the edge of sanity, being jostled like a prop during stifling photo ops… and then there were the other odd jobs. Teaching poise and etiquette, writing agony aunt columns, even narrating audio tapes. This was life as a "has been" and I find no shame in it. I am grateful to those organisers who offered me jobs, to those fans that turned up to attend those events, for those laughable paycheques that kept the lights on in my apartment.
This caption is my assertion of two matters. That there is dignity in all labour. And that, with some persistence and luck, the tough times can ease. I am wildly picky about work now. The kids reject half a dozen collaborations and requests on my behalf everyday. It is a privilege I enjoy, but do not take for granted.”

On the work front, the actress will star alongside Shabana Azmi in Manish Malhotra’s produced ‘Bun Tikki’.