In a recent conversation, Anurag Kashyap’s darling daughter Aaliyah Kashyap revealed how comments about her weight gain affected her mental health. While speaking on the podcast, the star kid said, “I used to eat a lot and I always wanted to put on weight cos I was scary skinny. No matter how much I ate, I couldn’t put on weight. And my mom used to be like that when she was younger too.” However, Aaliyah mentioned that when she began taking antidepressants two years ago, she started gaining weight. “I think I’ve put on about 12 or 13 kgs in the last year and a half. Which is a lot for me. It’s a huge change from what I’ve been used to my whole life.”
Aaliyah continued, “But then it kept going, and then I was like ‘okay, that’s enough. You can stop now.’ But it just never stopped. I started having a really unhealthy relationship with food, which affected my mental health. People started commenting about my weight which affected my mental health.”
The star kid also recalled, “A couple of weeks ago, I got a massage lady to come and give me a massage at home. This is the lady I used to call about a year ago. She asked me to change and when I came out, she said, ‘You’ve become so fat since I last saw you’. And I remember I went on the massage table, put my face between the hole, and started crying.”
She added that she is in a much better place now. “When I first gained weight, and comments started coming in, it felt like an end. Now I’m in the mindset that if I’m not happy about it, I’m gonna change it in a healthy way. Obviously, I’m still insecure, but I’m in a healthier mindset about it.”