Shahid Kapoor’s wife Mira Rajput says she is vegetarian, a teetotaller: ‘I refused to invest in a restaurant as it doesn’t align with my principles’

Shahid Kapoor's wife Mira shared that she did not invest in a restaurant because it was against her principles.

New Delhi | May 22, 2025 05:45 PM IST

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Shahid Kapoor with wife Mira Rajput. (Photo: Mira Rajput/Instagram)

Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira Rajput have repeatedly said that they come from a vegetarian household and don’t drink alcohol. So much so that even when an opportunity came their way to make some money from investing in business that didn’t necessarily adhere to their principles, they let it go. Mira, who has a beauty products business, recently revealed that she was approached by someone to invest in their restaurant business but she simple declined.

In a panel hosted by Forbes India, Mira shared that she doesn’t even eat eggs and is a teetotaller so when someone approached her with the option of investing in a restaurant, she knew it wasn’t her thing. “I am a vegetarian and I am very particular about what I eat. Like I don’t eat eggs and things like that but once I had someone approach me for a restaurant business and I did say ‘well, I am a vegetarian and I don’t drink alcohol so I am not going to be involved in a business that does that. I wish you all the very best but it doesn’t align with my principles’. So somewhere, you just need to know what’s right, what’s not and who you are,” she shared.

In the same chat, Mira said that being in the public eye, she often gets to hear a lot of opinions from people but she tries her best to ignore them as she completely abides by her belief system. “In the public eye, you always have all kinds of voices. I think sometimes you need to ensure that yours, in your head, is the loudest and you are telling yourself who you are, what you believe in, never forget that,” she said and added, “Because they can say anything. They will have their opinions and they are entitled to have that but I think recognising where you made that mistake, how you can fix that, what you know is a non negotiable for you. Things you will definitely stand by no matter what and who you are deep inside. I think your personality, your values, your integrity, I think that’s the voice that you never want to be soft. You should make sure that it’s always loud and clear, telling you that you got this, even if nobody else likes it, you know you are doing the right thing.”

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While Mira rejected the opportunity to invest in a restaurant, many other celebrities are successfully running their own restaurants. Shilpa Shetty, Gauri Khan, Virat Kohli, Malaika Arora, Asha Bhosle, Bobby Deol and many other celebrities own restaurants.

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