Farah Khan reveals doctor asked her to ‘reduce’ one baby when she conceived triplets; opens up about how her children Czar, Anya, and Diva joke about it now

 

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“We were too thrilled, we would have been thrilled with one child, she didn’t say it’s triplets, she said it’s multiple, so we thought it was twins. So we started discussing twins and we started naming. Shirish said we might as well start discussing triplets, why not? We named two babies, we had given some very cringey pet names to them and now we had a third one so we gave a ‘cringier’ pet name to the third one. We had started reading The Secret that time, which is about manifestation. Om Shanti Om was also all about manifestation; The Secret and The Alchemist, the whole thing was that,” the filmmaker added.

Farah then opened up about the challenges of having triplets, and the advise that her doctor gave her. She was told by her doctor that she would need to “reduce” one child because of her age. She was in her early 40’s when she conceived. Farah said that the doctor gave her a “reality check.”

 

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“At ten days she (the doctor) called me and she said that it’s triplets, and I said, ‘Haan, I just knew it doc’. Of course we were too excited and the doctor gave us a reality check and said that we’d have to reduce one because normally most twins start out as triplets. She said that you’re going to be 43 when the children come and it’s not good for you. Your stomach is great, your lining is fab but three children is a big risk and one child can be really small,” Farah said.

However, Farah delivered her triplets — Czar, Anya, and Diva — in 2008, and she shared how the kids have games where they joke that she should have ‘reduced’ the other one. She said, “The doctor gave me the worst case scenario, but I was like, ‘Doctor, you tell me what you need, how big you want each child to be.’ So she said that safely they should be two kilos each. I said I’ll make sure that they are over and above that. You will not believe my kids were two and a half kilos each. So, I was literally carrying seven and a half kilos and roaming. I was like I am not going to reduce one child, and now my children have games like, ‘You should have reduced that one, the doctor told you you should have removed one child.’”

 

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Farah’s triplets are now teenagers, and will appear for their tenth standard exams soon. However, she said that people still think she delivered her kinds “5 years ago.”

“Everyone who has a baby always calls me and says, ‘We have one baby and oh my God we were thinking about you. How the hell did you cope with three babies? We have gone mad with one child.,’” Farah jokingly said.

Farah then opened up about how different each of her children is from each other. Opening up about how the three of them are “reserved” like their father Shirish, she said, “They are completely different. It’s not only debunking myths about IVF but also myths of astrology and star signs. They were born literally one-two minutes apart and have completely different personalities. The only thing similar is that they are very, very good children, very reserved, they have gone on the father, all three of them, which is very irritating, because I did all the heavy lifting, literally! They have gone to the tenth standard now and people are like, ‘We just read, five years ago…’ and I say it was 15 years ago. They still remember where they were, where they read that I had delivered triplets.”