Twinkle Khanna Opens Up About Children Nitara And Aarav's Different Skin Tones; Here's What She Said

Popular author Twinkle Khanna, who was a film actor in the 1990s, has two children – son Aarav and daughter Nitara – with her husband, actor Akshay Kumar. Twinkle, in an earlier chat with FICCI FLO, shared some parenting hacks and said that one tends to experiment more with their firstborn as they are also learning what to do as a parent. Twinkle spoke about the difference in skin color between her two children, and recalled an anecdote about her daughter that Twinkle saw as a moment of 'triumph'.

"I Learned A Lot With My First Child"

Speaking at the event, Twinkle shared, "I learned a lot with my first child. And I think your first child tends to be that manual. You experiment a little bit on that child. With my second one, what I realized was that… I thought she looked like a normal Indian girl and there was always this comparison between her and her brother in skin color or things like that. Things that exist in our country. And I decided that I was going to make sure that she believed she was absolutely wonderful, so if she had a unibrow, I told her to look you are as beautiful as Frida Kahlo, and she was as amazing and so are you. If she is brown, I would tell her that her skin is golden."

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One day, Nitara was going to the beach with her brother, but she refused to put on any sunblock as she felt she did not need it. She then compared herself to a brown T-shirt and her brother to a white one, saying that a white T-shirt gets dirty but a brown one does not.

"I Thought That Was A Triumph..."

She said, "So eventually, one day, I think my proudest moment was when she was sitting with her brother, and we were going to the beach and he was putting on sunblock. She said, ‘I don't really need so much sunblock because my skin is greater than yours'. And she said a white T-shirt gets dirty, but a brown T-shirt doesn't. You can't see it, so I am greater. So I thought that was a triumph."

Twinkle welcomed her son Aarav in 2002 and daughter Nitara in 2012.