Actress Richa Chadha on Tuesday flaunted her baby bump in a set of maternity shoot photos with husband Ali Fazal on Instagram but disabled comments on the post, citing the need for privacy.

“What can a love so pure bring forth into the world, but a beam of light ? Thank you for being my partner on this incredible journey @alifazal9 , through this lifetime and many more, through starlights and galaxies… thank you for getting genius @ridburman to shoot us in our natural habitat @gulati.kanika,” the 37-year-old actress wrote alongside the pictures on Instagram.

“May we bring forth a warrior of light, a child of compassion, empathy, healing and above all love. Ameen,” Richa added. “Comments are off, because this is the most private thing I have posted,” she signed off.

The black-and-white pictures focus on Richa’s baby bump. In one of them, she lies on Ali’s lap as the latter keeps his hand on her belly.

The Fukrey actress is currently in her final trimester and is awaiting the arrival of her first child.

Recently, Richa opened up about the emotional journey of her pregnancy. “The discomfort is lonely, but it’s because (I) am not alone. I have constant reminders in the form of a tiny wave of a movement, a knee, a sudden kick, a feeling of someone listening in... Waiting for a bud to blossom. Aaja yaar,” she wrote alongside pictures of herself.

The actor-couple announced their pregnancy on February 9. “A tiny heartbeat is the loudest sound in our world,” Ali wrote in the caption, revealing the news alongside two images.

After having met on the sets of the 2012 film Fukrey and dating for 10 years, Ali and Richa had tied the knot in October 2022.