“What did you eat today?” It’s a question Jahnavi Mehta gets from her mother, Juhi Chawla, every single day, no matter where she is in the world. While it sounds simple, it’s also a gateway into a life of big decisions, high-stakes IPL auctions, and a career in sports management that has taken her from classrooms in New York to the chaos of cricket boards in India.
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In a conversation with Mo, Jahnavi told us how growing up she didn’t live under the spotlight of Bollywood like many celebrity kids. “I didn’t even know, maybe until I was four or five, that mom was in movies,” she says.
Jahnavi wanted to be an athlete
Her childhood was quiet, studious, and mostly normal — until she chose to step
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