Veteran actor Rekha started her career amid many struggles at an early age in Hindi cinema, and it is said that Rekha had to transform herself to impress the makers and audience of Bollywood. In a recent interview, her brother-in-law, actor Tej Sapru, spoke about Rekha’s transformation and said that the way she groomed herself was quite commendable. Dhanalakshmi is the daughter of actor Pushpavalli and cinematographer K Prakash, and Rekha is the daughter of Pushpavalli and actor Gemini Ganesan. When she started working in the movies, at that time she was fat… Everyone knows that. Gradually, I also started liking her,” he recalled and said that he married Dhanalakshmi in 1987 after his divorce was finalised.