Aaliyah Kashyap opens up about her weight gain and reveals she cried after being called ‘fat’ to her face

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s daughter Aaliyah Kashyap got engaged to Shane Gregoire in an intimate bash in August. The American entrepreneur had proposed to her earlier this year. Aaliyah, who is a YouTuber, recently opened up about her weight gain and insecurities as she chatted with Shane on the latest episode of their podcast.

In the episode, titled Exposing Our Insecurities, Aaliyah Kashyap who is quite active on social media revealed how initially, comments about her weight affected her mental health. Aaliyah said on the podcast, “My weight and my body, I am quite insecure about right now. It is crazy how detrimental this insecurity can be to mental health. I was always really skinny; my whole life, my metabolic rate was really high, and used to eat a lot. I always wanted to put on weight because I was scary skinny, my bones and stuff – very scary. No matter how much I ate, I couldn’t put on weight. My mom (film editor Aarti Bajaj) used to be like that when she was younger too, so I know this is genetic

But two years ago, when I started taking antidepressants, I started putting on so much weight. I think I’ve put on about 12 or 13 kg in the last year and a half. Which is a lot for me. It’s a huge change from what I’ve been used to my whole life. When I initially started putting on weight I was really happy… because I also didn’t like how skinny I looked. But then it kept going, and then I was like ‘Okay, that’s enough. You can stop now.’ But it just never stopped.