Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; November 22, 2016)

Kareena Kapoor who went from a pleasantly plump teenager to a sizzling size zero leading lady and maintaining an elegant frame in her 30s, has religiously stuck to a food rule in the last decade — to have not more than three items on her plate at a time. Now, in the last month of her pregnancy, the actress is unapologetically flouting it by tucking into paya soup and biryani every day before the baby arrives. She promises to lose all the excess weight before her next film, Shashanka Ghosh’s Veerey Di Wedding, which also features Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania in the lead, kicks off in April.

“Kareena was glugging a protein shake at a recent magazine shoot when she decided on a whim to ditch it and ordered biryani and paya soup instead. Since then, she’s been eating this three times a day!” reveals a source close to the glowing mum-to-be.

Saif has been teasing his begum about all her biryani diet but his jokes are falling on deaf ears. Her gastronomic excess aside, the 35-year-old actress has been on her toes even as the D-Day inches closer (sometime in mid-December, we’re told), making public appearances and doing photo shoots.