Think every A-lister you know accepts that fancy Dom Perignon at red carpet dashes? Or, a night out means one that they can’t remember unless the paparazzi reminds them? Positively wrong. Did you know that Anushka Sharma gave up alcohol three years ago? The Ae Dil Hai Mushkil star recently confessed to it on The Kapil Sharma Show. She also joked about how people spill their drunken secrets to her thinking that she wouldn’t remember them! And she’s not the only one. In what may come as a pleasant surprise, a number of celebrities are off the booze wagon and don’t mind going on the record about it.
Her Gossip Girl character hit the bottle hard, but Blake Lively is famous for never having touched alcohol in her life! She’s a certified foodie, and yet, doesn’t even use tipple to bake. Kim Kardashian West may hit night clubs for appearances, but it’s a big no on the booze for the reality star. Jennifer Lopez thinks it’s bad for the skin and stays off it, and it shows. Jennifer Hudson, Tyra Banks, Natalie Portman and David Beckham have all banned the bottle too. Closer home on the B-Town circuit, John Abraham isn’t for drinking, so you won’t see much of him at parties either. Parineeti Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu and Sonakshi Sinha are others who avoid tipple, because, for them, staying in shape is a priority.
This conversation is obviously moot without a mention of Bollywood’s Khiladi, Akshay Kumar. The actor lends a cool image to the word teetotal and has stayed off spirits for over 22 years — nothing has dimmed his spirits though! “I like to eat homemade food and don’t drink or smoke because I’m health conscious. I also never endorse any liquor or tobacco either,” says the actor, who hopes to be a good role model and doesn’t want to send out wrong messages to the youth. “I try to follow a strict fitness regime with exercise and all this requires a lot of discipline and sacrifice,” he says, adding that staying away from alcohol however, has never been a sacrifice for him.
