Aamir Khan’s daughter, Ira Khan is one of the most popular star kids in the entertainment block. For the unversed, she is Aamir’s daughter from his first marriage with Reena Dutta. She also has a brother, Junaid Khan. Despite being the daughter of an iconic Bollywood star, Ira has set her achievements in the field of social welfare and has recently launched her own NGO called Agastu Foundation. In her personal life, she is all set to get married to her fiance, Nupur Shikhare.
In a recent interview with The Times Of India, Ira Khan spoke about her newly launched NGO, Agastu Foundation, that seeks to provide support to those who have suffered from mental health disorders. She revealed that her parents and ex-couple, Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta are positioned on the advisory board of the foundation. Speaking more about her decision to launch the same, Ira emphasised how she has witnessed mental health disorders running in her own family. Moreover, she added that she too at quite some point in her life had a total mental breakdown because of the things that affect her life. In her words:
“Every 8-10 months I will have a big crash. It’s partly genetic, partly psychological, and partly social. It took me a while to figure it out. But I have mental health disorders in my family.”
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Going further in the interview, Ira revealed that she too had to deal with depression in her life, precisely at the time of the divorce of her parents. She recalled she had just systematically walked into depression without realising it, and it was finally her mother, Reena who identified her symptoms. She mentioned:
“I also did not make healthy choices and I systematically walked into depression. My mom pointed out that I didn’t want to be alive so I would just sleep my day away so that I would have fewer hours to live in a day.”
In one of her earlier social media engagements on her IG handle, Ira had admitted being diagnosed with clinical depression, and further revealed that she had been dealing with it for over four years. Moreover, she added that she always wanted to come out with her journey of such a mental health issue. Ira also revealed that she aspires to do something in this regard, such that mental health would no longer be considered a taboo to speak on.
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Aamir Khan and his first wife, Reena Dutta’s divorce was an amicable one and even today, they continue to share a cordial bond. Speaking about the same, Ira Khan had once revealed how she had dealt with her parent’s divorce in the first place. She mentioned that she was too small at that point of time, and such a massive decision didn’t mean much to her then, so as to be able to traumatise her.
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