Updated On: 29 March, 2023 08:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
As Alia’s skin-care video gains traction, experts on foods, treatments they use for their celeb clients

Alia Bhatt, Taapsee Pannu and Anushka Sharma
Her ability to appropriately utilise opportunities to achieve professional success is only one of the factors contributing to Alia Bhatt’s enormous fan-following. Another is her command over her physical well-being, including her grasp over what we’d call the skin-care language. Hearing Bhatt speak about maintaining healthy-looking skin in her recently released YouTube video — which she claimed was created on demand — is like attempting to decipher a new language. “She could be an expert,” some fans suggested.
While she spills her cosmetic secrets in the 20-minute video, we ask her nutritionist, Dr Siddhant Bhargava, how her diet aids her in her efforts. “The amount of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories that she has in her diet helps her keep pigmentation and sun-damage [at bay]. Also, good skin is a result of the diet. If someone eats oily foods, they will have acne; if you eliminate good fats, your skin will lose sheen. And, without protein, the skin cannot recover. So, we add enough of the good stuff to her diet. Having said that, genetics play a big role in how you look. Nothing beats it. And while you can’t change your genes, you can hone [its expression].”