Bollywood diva Manisha Koirala wants to adopt a baby girl. Now the actress, 46, is battling cancer for five years and will be cancer free in December this year.

“If everything goes well, I’m planning to adopt a baby girl. I just hope everything goes right and it all falls into place. I want to be there for the child, and I’ll make sure that I plan my life around this. I’m super excited about this new phase in my life, and I can’t wait for it to begin,” Times of India reports.

Manisha Koirala will be soon seen in the Sanjay Dutt biopic as his mother Nargis in the next film.

TOI also quoted Manisha as saying, “I’ll pass on my wisdom and the lessons learnt out of life’s experiences to her. I’ll also teach her to appreciate the abundant beauty that lies in everything God has created.”

Bollywood actresses Raveena Tandon and Sushmita Sen adopted as single mothers several years ago. Raveena adopted Pooja, then 11, and Chhaya, then 8, in 1995. Both Pooja and Chhaya are now married. Sushmita is the mother of 16-year-old Renee, whom Sushmita adopted in 2000. In 2010, she adopted Alisah when she was all of three-months-old.