Ashanty Blak-Blakan Reveals How It Feels to Be a Stepmother to Aurel and Azriel Hermansyah: It's Always Confusing

Kapanlagi.com - Recently, Ashanty was a guest on Deddy Corbuzier's latest podcast. There, Deddy asked about her relationship with the Anang Hermansyah family, especially her stepchildren.

As is known, since marrying Anang and living together, Ashanty has been known as a very good stepmother. So, how does Ashanty feel when she has to replace Krisdayanti as their mother figure?

"It's kind of conflicting. If I try to become it, then automatically at that time I have to try to replace her. It's funny if I say 'I'm the one who gave birth to you'. The kids are in 5th and 6th grade, they know who their biological mother is, they know who gave birth, so at that time my position is to replace the position at home," said Ashanty as quoted from Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel.

1. Unable to Replace the Figure of Biological Mother

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Being a stepmother, for Ashanty herself, replacing the figure of a biological mother for Aurel and Azriel is quite difficult. Especially at that time, Ashanty still had little experience in taking care of children.

"Not replacing the biological mother, replacing the position of the mother figure, right. Because I don't live with the children. At that time, I had to be in a position to be a mother for them when I didn't like the children, didn't have experience," said the 35-year-old woman.

2. Reasons for Marrying Anang Hermansyah

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In addition, Ashanty also explained why the figure of a stepmother or stepfather is known to be less good, because according to her, they do it out of obligation and end up pretending.

However, for Ashanty, loving Anang Hermansyah's children is not a necessity because she married their father.

"Why did I want to marry Anang, because I also fell in love with his children. At times, there is an obligation, you have to pretend 'I don't actually like this child, what is this child doing' and we didn't know if this child would live with us or not. I didn't understand during those moments," said Ashanty.

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