When Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi secretly married in a gurudwara ceremony in 2018, the announcement surprised everyone. They had kept their relationship private, and the wedding became even more talked about when their daughter Mehr arrived just six months later. Now, the couple has spoken openly about how their relationship slowly took shape over the years.

On Bharti Singh and Harsh Limbachiya’s podcast, Angad admitted that he had been trying to win Neha over for almost eight years. “I was after Neha for 8 years. I kept going after her all that time, but she never said yes, she was very busy,” he said. He also remembered their first meeting and said he was struck by how beautiful she looked while running on a treadmill. “When I saw her for the first time, I thought she was very beautiful. She was running on a treadmill and I was standing behind, just watching and thinking, what amazing form. I fell in love with her running form. I was like, she’s an athlete.”

Neha, meanwhile, said work was her top focus then. She explained that her days were built around fitness and career, though she was open to meeting someone if the right person came along. Angad even tried spending time with her during a film shoot and later bonded with her mother, thinking that if her mother was kind, Neha would be too.

Still, nothing moved forward for a long time. Angad said he was not even in her line of sight, despite approval from her parents. The turning point came with pregnancy. Neha said, “I want to say thank God we got pregnant, she is the blessing that brought the love story,” adding that their daughter brought them together. She also said, “It was our daughter who got us together because we were pregnant we were like just do it.”

Today, the couple are parents to Mehr and Guriq, and their story continues to stand out for its honesty and warmth.