Actor Varun Dhawan revealed his daughter was diagnosed with DDH, a condition affecting hip development. She recently underwent a procedure and was in a spica cast for 2.5 months. Dhawan shared this to raise awareness about the treatable condition in India, urging parents to monitor their children’s movements. Read on to know more in detail.
Varun Dhawan and his wife, Natasha Dalal, became parents in the year 2024, as they welcomed a daughter together. In a recent interaction, the actor opened up about how his little one was diagnosed with DDH (developmental dysplasia of the hip), due to which she was not able to run properly. He then went on to reveal that his daughter underwent a procedure recently.
Varun Dhawan shares his daughter has been diagnosed with DDH
In an interview with the Be A Man, Yaar! podcast, Varun Dhawan revealed, “My daughter was diagnosed with DDH, in which the hip slips out of the hip socket. Ek pair lamba chota hojaata hai jiski wajah se walk tedi hojaati hai (One leg becomes longer or shorter than the other, because of which the walking becomes uneven). You can’t walk or run properly.”In the same conversation, the actor added, “You get arthritis early, slip disc early.”He further shared, “West main iska bahut accha treatment hota hai birth pe hi India main har jagah nahi hai itna. But yahan bhi bahut acche doctors hain jo iska care karte hain (In the West, there is very good treatment for this right from birth, but in India it’s not available everywhere to that extent. However, there are also very good doctors here who take care of it).” Varun Dhawan shared that his daughter didn’t need any kind of surgery during this treatment. He said, “With one procedure they could put the hip back. But she had to be in a spica cast. That means she had to be in cast for 2.5 months. Which is extremely difficult. To put her in anesthesia, and then she woke up in a cast. Now the cast is out. I want to write a book on it.”The actor urged every parent out there to pay attention to their children’s movement and go for a checkup if they see anything unusual.Varun asked his fans not to show him sympathy for this, as he shared about the situation just to make people in India aware related to DDH. He added that DDH is curable if diagnosed during the baby’s development.
More about Varun Dhawan
Varun Dhawan was last seen in the film ‘Border 2’, directed by Anurag Singh. The movie went on to score over Rs 400 crore at the global box office. Next, he will be seen in ‘Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai’, directed by David Dhawan. The movie is slated to release in June this year.
