Karan Johar says his kids have started asking questions about their mother: ‘Whose stomach was I born in?’

Karan also spoke about projecting his own insecurities on his son, and said that he finds himself struggling to not say insensitive things to him. “When I see my son consuming sugar and I see he has put on more weight, then I am so paranoid for him. I don’t want to say it to him because this is the age where I want to live his life, I want him to be happy and joyous because he is a happy child,” he said.

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Karan said that he tells his son to go play cricket or football and “do all the things that I didn’t do.” He added, “But I shouldn’t be this parent. I want my kid to be an individual of his own choice, my daughter and my son both.” The filmmaker shared that he actually ended up saying something insensitive to his son once, but he later apologised for it.

“I said ‘Yash, you have put on weight’. Like I said it this time. We were on a holiday and I said it. And the I went to my room and said, ‘Why did you do that?’ I went outside and I hugged him and I said, ‘I am really sorry, you eat what you want’,” he said. Karan said that as a child, his parents would often tell him to be like other boys, but society wasn’t evolved enough to accept children like him for who they are.