Actor Gauahar Khan welcomed her first child, a baby boy named Zehaan, with husband Zaid Darbar in May 2023. Just a few months after giving birth, she returned to her co-hosting duties on the sets of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 11. In a recent interaction, Gauahar revealed that she went on an only salad and soup diet six months after giving birth and lost 10kgs in 10 days, as she was eager to return to work and wanted to look her best on screen.
Speaking on The Debina Bonnerjee Show, she said, “I was conscious that I’m going to be on screen again, and I can’t take that lightly. For six months, I breastfeed but I was not exclusively breastfeeding, I was also using formula. But for those six months, I didn’t take care of my food that much as I was breastfeeding and I had that responsibility. I was eating normal food, keeping in mind the carbohydrates, fat and protein content needed for Zehaan.”
Gauahar revealed that after six months of giving birth to Zehaan, she decided to wean him off breast milk and made drastic changes to her diet to quickly lose weight. She said, “Six months after his birth, I decided to wean him off breast milk and from that day I went on an only salad diet. My diet was only leaves and soup. I zipped my mouth. I literally did. I was not on a diet. I was eating things properly, but it used to be salads and soup form. I left non-veg. I left mutton. It is my most favourite thing to eat, but I left it because it is high in calories. I left all that because I wanted to work.”
Earlier in 2023, Gauahar took to Instagram to share a photo of herself, revealing that she lost 10 kilos of postpartum weight in just 10 days after giving birth to Zehaan. She wrote, “Lost 10 kgs in 10 days postpartum! Alhamdulillah! Six more to go!”
In an earlier interaction with Red FM, Gauahar admitted that she faced criticism on social media after she shared her weight loss journey. She said, “You know a lot of people actually told me ‘Why are you showing that you’ve lost weight? Why are you showing that you’ve reduced so much? Think about other women. The things we can’t do, you have so many gym trainers and you have so many’… comments like these also come.”
But Gauahar clarified that she doesn’t have any expensive trainer or nutritionist. She said, “No, I don’t have any expensive gym trainers, I don’t have any diets being given to me. You need to zip your mouth for yourself, you need to do proper research, which I have done.” Gauahar is currently pregnant with her second child.
