India, July 2 -- After her stint on Bigg Boss 19, entrepreneur and reality TV personality Tanya Mittal became a household name. The popularity, however, came at a cost and her experience on actor Salman Khan's show made her apprehensive of returning to the reality space. "I felt people only wanted TRPs from me, whether by humiliating me or provoking me," she says. But it was her mother Suneeta Mittal, who pushed her to try again and say yes to the another reality show Maa Hai Na. "I had become completely rigid about not doing another reality show. She told me, 'If you keep running away from things, you'll never move forward. Face your fears, and this time I'll stand beside you'."

Mittal adds that while filming Maa Hai Na, there came a po...