Deepika Padukone opens up about her complicated pregnancy, says she ‘went through a lot’: ‘You’re discovering body parts because they hurt’

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The Piku actor spoke about her routine after daughter’s birth, and shared that she started with swimming, then Pilates and slowly got into functional training. Eventually, she began doing cardio and weight training. Deepika shared that she is now starting to feel in tune with her body, as she is able to find her strength and stamina again. But Deepika is not entertaining the idea of ‘post-baby’ workouts to get to her older self.

“I was very sure that once the delivery happened, and that was successful, that I was going to just be in the moment, just love my body, love my baby, and just replenish my tank…thanking my body, respecting my body,” she said, and added, “I think I’m aware about up to what point I can push my body and mind, and then when I feel like, ‘Okay, I need that time for myself’, or whether it’s that one hour where I need to go to the gym, just because that’s my time, or I’m feeling really exhausted, I need a quick power nap, I do that.”

Deepika shared that before Dua, she would track her quality and quantity of sleep, but now, that has undergone a big change and she takes 10-minute naps whenever she gets a chance. She called it “mindfully focusing on [her] body” as she considers sleep to be the “number one health tool or hack that I think is so underrated.”

Deepika Padukone was last seen in Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again. It is rumoured that she will next be seen with Shah Rukh Khan in King, which also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Suhana Khan.