"The reason you get married is primarily to have children." Twinkle Khanna shared how she investigated Akshay Kumar's family history before marrying him. She turned 51 years old today.
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00:00There he was, 6 feet of chocolate ice cream
00:02Says that Akshay is gay
00:04And she's told me this while we're sitting there
00:06And he's doing acupressure
00:08On my birthday, he got me a crystal paperweight
00:10A paperweight
00:12The reason you get married is primarily to have children
00:14I wanted to know what are the diseases running in his family
00:16You know
00:18At what age did uncles in his family lose their hair
00:24So this relationship of yours
00:26It started off as a fling, right?
00:28It was not something that you were taking seriously
00:30So how did it go uphill from there?
00:32No, it didn't start as a fling
00:34It did
00:36I had come on to a long term relationship
00:38And I wanted to just for the first time in my life
00:40Have a fling
00:42So I decided I'm going to have, there he was, 6 feet of chocolate ice cream
00:44So I decided that
00:46I'm going to have a fling with him
00:48And it's going to last 15 days
00:50That was my plan
00:52But why only 15 days?
00:54Because that was the outdoor
00:56Yeah, sort of
00:58And I ran out of books
01:00In Calgary
01:02And there was no TV
01:04And I was really bored
01:06And there he was
01:08So it was kind of perfect
01:10Why are you hitting me?
01:12She's saying all these things
01:14You're making her talk so many things
01:16And that was it
01:18Then I had to approach her mother
01:20And that is another whole episode
01:22What happened?
01:24So he asked my mother
01:26So he's come to ask my mother if he should marry me
01:28And my mother's friend
01:30So my mother and me are sitting together on this couch
01:32And he's sitting opposite
01:34And my mother's friend is there
01:36And he's doing some acupressure for her back or something
01:38So my mother says
01:40I have to tell you something
01:42So I said tell me, no, no, after he goes
01:44I'm like, no, no, tell me, tell me
01:46She says
01:48Just remember you're on television
01:50That's okay
01:52And then I saw a piece on some gay newspaper
01:54Says that Akshay is gay
01:56And she's told me this while we're sitting there
01:58And he's doing acupressure
02:00So I almost fainted
02:04So then did she agree?
02:06She didn't agree
02:08She said you'll live together for one year and then we'll see
02:10So we lived together for one year
02:12But when we were first dating
02:14On my birthday he got me
02:16A crystal paperweight
02:18A paperweight
02:20And I actually thought that I'd be very impressed with this paperweight
02:22Or I don't know
02:24Actually I had forgotten her birthday
02:26Let me honestly tell you
02:28I had forgotten her birthday
02:30And then I realized it was her birthday
02:32There was no time to go and buy
02:34So this paperweight was there in my house
02:36So I could clear out
02:40He gave me a paperweight
02:42So I told him at that day
02:44That one day you'll buy me a diamond as big as this bloody paperweight
02:46So I made sure
02:48It was a true triumph
02:50Before this bond was made
02:52You actually made a list of things
02:54Of his entire family tree, genetic history
02:56You went to his aunts, uncles
02:58What diseases they had, how they looked
03:00Did you actually do this?
03:02The reason you get married is primarily to have children
03:04Right
03:06Now which means that you're introducing
03:08One of the reasons
03:10No, primarily
03:12The others are companionship, whatever
03:14But primarily
03:16Family line
03:18So I wanted to know what are the diseases running
03:20In his family
03:22At what age did uncles in his family
03:24Lose their hair
03:26What did Kanchan Chachi die of
03:28So I would keep asking all this
03:30And he probably thought I'm very concerned about his family
03:32She's all the time asking what happened to Pintu Mama
03:34You know all that
03:36So I had this chart
03:38That was one chart, the genetic chart
03:40And this chart I found after my marriage
03:42On the second day
03:44No, you found another chart
03:46There was a pros and cons of marrying him also
03:48So I had all the advantages on one side
03:50And all the disadvantages
03:52There were two and they pretty much stayed the same
03:54And there were eight advantages which have stayed the same
03:56So no one can say that I didn't know
03:58What I was getting into it
04:00And I didn't hide it, it was on the bedside
04:02It wasn't like I was
04:04His family, I found out
04:06They had early balding or cancer
04:08Or heart diseases
04:10And did the family pass your litmus test
04:12Yeah, most of them kind of are still alive also
04:14Because they have healthy genes