‘I was unrecognisable physically…’: Deepika Padukone on getting Covid-19, how it changed her fundamentally

It is Deepika Padukone's 35th birthday today. The actor, like many of us, had a tough 2021 and blame the Covid-19 virus for it. Here's all that Deepika herself shared about the virus's effect on her life, work, and family and how she coped with it. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika Padukone recently opened up about her life during Covid lockdown. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika-Ranveer had a fun time during the first lockdown. (Photo: Ranveer Singh/Instagram)

They shared a lot of photos and videos via social media and we saw how well they enjoyed each other's company. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika once shared that she is thankful that she and Ranveer did not get locked down without each other, which is something that happened to many people. "Just to be able to be at home with each other, and being safe is a blessing,” she said in her interview to Hindustan Times. (Photo: Ranveer Singh/Instagram)

When the second wave of Covid-19 started to spread, the couple flew to Bengaluru to live with Deepika Padukone's parents for some days. (Photo: Ranveer Singh/Instagram)

This was when Deepika, her father Prakash Padukone, mother Ujjala, and sister Anisha tested positive for the novel coronavirus. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika and her family contracted the virus in May 2021. The actor shared that the coronavirus pandemic changed her fundamentally as a person. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

"I think lockdown one was very, very different. It was all of us trying to figure what had come upon us. And trying to understand how to navigate our lives around this new wave," shared Deepika in interaction with Film Companion's Anupama Chopra. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika added, "Lockdown two was also very different because everyone in my family, including me had COVID at the same time." (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

She also shared that after she recovered from Covid-19, she was "unrecognisable completely". (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

"Life after COVID changed for me because physically, I was unrecognizable completely... I think (due to) the medication I was given, the steroids that I was put on. So COVID in itself was weird, your body feels different, your mind feels different," shared Deepika. (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Speaking about her life after Covid-19, Deepika shared, "I felt that when I had the illness it was still okay but after that, I needed to take two months off work because my mind wasn't working." (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Deepika described, "The phase for me was very, very difficult". (Photo: Deepika Padukone/Instagram)

Ranveer and Deepika were recently seen on the big screen in Kabir Khan’s directorial 83. (Photo: Ranveer Singh/Instagram)