‘I sobbed in front of Shah Rukh Khan for one hour’: Farah Khan opens up about struggling to conceive during Om Shanti Om shoot

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Farah said that after her mother, Shah Rukh was the first person to know that she had conceived. “I said, ‘I have to tell you something’. He looked at me and said, ‘Are you pregnant?’ We still had to finish Darde-e-Disco, and every time he’d remove his shirt I would throw up. He would keep a bucket next to me. He was very sweet, he ordered this lazy boy couch, instead of the director’s chair, so that I could lie down with a mic and shout at people.”

Farah also described the day that she gave birth, and said that over 30 people had crowded into the delivery room because the hospital she was admitted to hadn’t had a triplet birth in decades. And Shah Rukh dropped by the same day to congratulate her. “Shah Rukh came the same day to the hospital and there was a stampede. The patients have come out with their IV drips and Shah Rukh khada hai.” Shah Rukh also bought Farah’s triplets a fancy pram from Harrod’s, but didn’t realise that it would be too large to fit through the doors of Farah’s house. “He came home and he fixed it, but it was so big that it wouldn’t go out of the door,” she said, adding that all her friends from the film industry took very good care of her during the pregnancy, and that Shah Rukh’s wife, Gauri, threw a baby shower for her.

Farah’s children – Czar, Diva and Anya – were born in 2008. She has been married to film editor and director Shirish Kunder since 2004. Farah and Shah Rukh had a famous falling out a few years after her children’s birth, but have since patched up.