Turbulent Personal Life
Lakshmi has had a turbulent personal life. She was married three times. Her first marriage was to Baskar, which was arranged by her parents when she was seventeen. Her only biological child, Aishwarya, was born in 1971. Her marriage ended in a divorce, and she gained custody of her daughter, who later became an actress in the 1990s, making her a fourth generation actress.
Lakshmi fell in love with her Chattakari leading man Mohan, but that relationship ended. While she was shooting En Uyir Kannamma, she and actor-director Sivachandran fell in love and got married.
Her daughter Aishwarya, gave birth to a baby girl in the mid 1990s, making Lakshmi a real-life grandmother. Lakshmi adopted a baby girl in 2001. Her daughter Aishwarya is an actress in South Indian films, but could not reach the heights on the silver screen which her mother did.
Aishwarya battled with both a turbulent marriage and drug addiction, yet survived with her sanity intact.
