Anushka Sharma once shared how she tricks daughter Vamika into eating healthy: ‘You are fooling them…’

Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are one of India’s most loved celebrity couples. Fans admire their romance and how they stand by each other, but many also look up to the way they balance their busy careers with raising their two children, daughter Vamika and baby son Akaay.

Back in September 2024, during an event in Mumbai, Anushka gave a fun and honest look into her parenting style. She shared how she sometimes has to use her acting skills to convince her daughter to eat healthy, but her little one is already clever enough to see through the tricks.

Fooling a toddler is not so easy

When asked how she keeps her children from getting tempted by junk food, the ‘PK’ actress had said, “This was a hard one. Your kid is two, and if it is your firstborn, then it’s kind of easier because they haven’t been to that many birthday parties. They don’t know that cake exists and there is pizza in the world. You create this nice little bubble for them. You are fooling them well (chuckles). And then they start seeing things; ‘Oh! Wait a minute, what is that woman not been showing me?’ So, I am going through that with my daughter.”

Turning healthy eating into a fun story

The ‘Sultan’ actress explained that she tries to make the idea of eating healthy sound interesting for her daughter. She said, “I think the only way I have managed to, and I am still trying, is that I do explain it to her. I tell her that there are some foods that give us energy so you can play and do different things. Some food gives that to us very quickly and then we have no energy left to do other things. Other foods give us energy in a way that we can keep playing… I make it sound more interesting than I am making it to you guys right now. But I feel like she doesn’t buy most of the times, she is like, ‘Whatever, just give it!’ I also pick days and give a very lengthy explanations, which I try to make fun. I bring out the actress in me…”

A sweet lesson at an ice-cream museum

The ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ actress recalled taking Vamika to an ice-cream museum in Singapore, expecting her to go all out. But her daughter surprised her. “I took her to an ice cream museum because she loves ice cream. She is obsessed. There, I told her, ‘Eat as much as you want’. She didn’t eat that much. So, I think when you inculcate the right kind of habits in the beginning, they don’t stuff themselves with 10 ice creams. She must have had two, and then she was like, ‘I am done.’ So if you inculcate the right habits in the beginning, they’ll make the right choice,” concluded Anushka.

On the work front, Anushka was last seen in the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Zero’ in 2018 before taking a break from films. She made a brief but delightful appearance in the 2022 OTT film ‘Qala’ in the song ‘Ghodey Pe Sawaar’. Since then, there have been no official updates on her next project.