Its Helen's birthday: Know how Bollywood's legendary dancer lost everything in love

The eternal dancing queen of Bollywood, Helen, celebrates her birthday today. While she is now happily married to Salim Khan , there was a time when she lost everything in love and went bankrupt. Even though she became professionally successful when she was just a teenager, her personal life was full of turmoil in the first few years.

The dancer married Prem Narayan Arora when she was just 19. The producer and B-grade director was 27 years older than her, and there have been reports that he was more interested in her money and clout that Helen held in Bollywood at the time.

During their 16 years of marriage, Helen reached the top of her career and was paid a big sum for her item songs and cabaret dances. It was the peak moment of her career during which PN Arora allegedly made good use of Helen’s money. The dancer was looking for a stable and happy married life. Reports indicate that Arora had taken full control of the wealth of Helen and even transferred most of the wealth to his name.

When at the age of 35 Helen decided to divorce her husband she was left penniless. She did not have enough money even to pay the rent of her house. So the topmost and highest-paid dancer in Bollywood even after earning huge money, name and fame was left without any money and had to give up her home.

Many fans of Helen often wonder what made her stay with Arora for such long years because it is also alleged that he did not treat her well in their personal life. There have been questions regarding why she never had children despite being married for 16 years to Arora when she was in the prime of her youth. Surprisingly, despite leading a tumultuous personal life and controversial second marriage not much is known about Helen . Rather she has never opened up about that phase of her life ever.