Ever since giving birth, Alia Bhatt has ensured that she preserves her daughter Rhea Kapoor’s childhood forever.
Alia Bhatt is ensuring that her daughter Rhea Kapoor’s childhood is captured and preserved for a lifetime. She is not only recording important moments of Rhea growing up but also storing them in a memory book. It is not a physical memory book but a virtual memory book.
“I am doing this thing where I am sending emails to Rhea. I have been doing this since the day she was born. I do it every month. Just an amalgamation of photos, videos, what happened, thoughts and feelings.
Someone said it’s like a summary. I thought it was a great idea. It’s a life memory book. I don’t have the discipline and energy to fill up a physical memory book. So I thought this is a nice, digital memory book. It’s easy and it’s nice. Maybe when she’s 15, I’ll gift her this and say, ‘Listen, these are all the memories we’ve collected for you over the years. Go ahead, have some fun,'” Alia said on the Jay Shetty podcast.
This digital memory book has Rhea’s memories of Alia, father Ranbir Kapoor, grandparents (Mahesh Bhatt, Soni Razdan, Neetu Kapoor), aunts and uncles.
Alia further added, “I know I can’t be a perfect parent. I can only be so nice. But I have to be so present with her and let her feel what she’s feeling, emphasize certain values and behavior, but at the same time let her just be.
There are so many combinations and combinations that I’m constantly playing with. So that’s another concern – the future, life. Then of course, there are the physical things – has she eaten well, is she sleeping well, what’s going to happen tomorrow, what’s going to happen the day after. And then, I’m a working mother. I have to acknowledge my privilege.
I have a great support system around her. But the anxiety is not going to leave me. Like, ‘Oh I’m away, is she going to understand something that I don’t want her to understand?’ All these things. But you just take each day as it comes and move on. It’s a very surreal feeling and it’s not something I’ve figured out from day one.
I keep thinking about it every day. But other than that, it’s a joy.” Rhea was born on November 6, 2022, a few months after Alia Bhatt tied the knot with Ranbir Kapoor. Alia and Ranbir also kept a no-photo policy for Rhea for over a year. They showed her face on Christmas 2023 when they stepped out for the annual Kapoor family Christmas lunch.
