Snehlata Panday Age, Death, Husband, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Other name(s)	• Snehlata Sharad Panday • Snehlata Pandey
Profession(s)	• Doctor • Physician • Dietician
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 168 cm in meters- 1.68 m in feet & inches- 5’ 6”
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Light Red Copper Brown
Personal Life
Date of Birth	• Source 1: 17 May 1934 (Thursday) [1]The Times of India • Source 2: 17 May 1936 (Sunday) [2]India Today
Date of Death	10 July 2021
Place of Death	Mumbai
Age (at the time of death)	• Source 1: 87 Years [3]The Times of India • Source 2: 85 Years [4]India Today
Death Cause	• Source 1: Prolonged illness [5]India Today • Source 2: Heart attack [6]The Indian Express
Zodiac sign	Taurus
Nationality	Indian
Educational Qualification(s)	• MBBS • Diploma in Gynecology & Obstetrics • Diploma in Family Planning [7]Slim Now Stay Slim by Snehlata Panday
Hobby	Palm reading
Relationships & More
Marital Status (at the time of death)	Widowed
Family
Husband/Spouse	Sharad Panday (deceased; heart surgeon)
Children	Daughter- None Son(s)- 2 • Chunky Panday (actor, businessman) • Chikki Panday aka Aloke Sharad Pandey (businessman)
Grandchildren	Granddaughter(s)- 3 • Ananya Panday (actress) • Rysa Panday • Alanna Panday (social media influencer) Grandson- 1 • Ahaan Panday (actor, model)
Daughters-In-Law	• Bhavana Pandey (Chunky Panday's wife; costume designer) • Deanne Panday (Chikki Panday's wife; wellness coach and author) Note: Image in the Grandchildren section.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Snehlata Panday

• Snehlata Panday was an Indian doctor, physician, and dietician, who had a wide experience in fitness & nutrition for more than 30 years.

• At the time of Snehlata’s birth, the doctors said to her parents that she had a defective heart valve and wouldn’t survive much longer.

• Her husband, Sharad Panday, was a heart surgeon who was one of the surgeons who carried out the nation’s first heart transplant at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College in Mumbai.

• Snehlata’s son Chikki Panday is a businessman and co-founder of a non-profit organization, Akshara Foundation of Arts and Learning, which supports the education of underprivileged children. Additionally, Chikki is also a member of the Steel Consumers Council and the Telephone Advisory Committees of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of India.

• When Dr Snehlata Panday first started her work, she noticed that 20% of her patients were the ones who were truly unwell. On the other hand, the rest of 80% of the patients had medical difficulties that were always related to weight.

• Dr. Snehlata Panday co-founded Slimelle, a beauty salon and dieting centre in Mumbai, on 1 August 1974 after visiting numerous slimming clinics across the world.
  

  An old picture of Snehlata Pandey

• Snehlata served as a weight-loss consultant-gynaecologist at Slimelle and offered her treatments to a number of Bandra socialites and Bollywood stars, including Babita Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Vinod Khanna, and Hema Malini.

• Rekha’s remarkable body transformation was the result of her introduction to aerobics and a nutritious diet by Snehlata Panday. Dr Panday created the unique “Rekha Diet,” which helped her lose tons of weight.
  

  Snehlata Panday with Sharad Panday and Rekha

• Over the years of her medical practice, Dr Panday developed experience in a variety of paramedical fortes, including reiki, acupressure, and hypnosis.

• She has written for a range of newspapers and journals in addition to making appearances on various TV shows and discussion programmes both domestically and internationally.

• She was given multiple job offers from abroad; however, she stayed in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

• She authored a book titled Slim Now Stay Slim in 1997.
  

  Cover of the book ‘Slim Now and Stay Slim’ by Dr. Snehlata Panday published in 1997

• Chunky Panday spoke about his mother, Snehlata Panday, in an interview and revealed that his mother used to accompany him to performances and film shoots overseas because Chunky feared that his numerous girlfriends would become upset if he didn’t take them with him.
  

  I have travelled with her everywhere and I was known as a mama’s boy. Normally heroines used to take their mothers along with them while travelling for films, I was the only hero who travelled with his mom. And since I didn’t have a steady girlfriend, I used to take my mother everywhere. I am glad that she got to see the world with me.”

  

  An old picture of Snehlata Panday accompanying Chunky Panday

• Snehlata used to dress her son Chunky as a girl till he was two years old because she desperately desired a daughter. In an interview, Chunky Panday laughed and said that she used to make him wear earrings. He further added,
  

  When I was born, she always wanted to have a daughter and she got a son. So, till the age of 2, she used to dress me up like a girl. I used to wear these lovely earnings and that’s why today when I go shopping, I normally pick up ladies clothes and the shopkeeper asks me if this is for my wife or for my daughter and I say, it’s for me.”

• Ananya Panday shared a post on Instagram in which she appreciated her grandmother Snehlata Panday’s dedication to her work while saying she used to go to work at 7 am dressed up and wearing her block heels and red streaked hair even when she was 85 years old.
  

  Ananya Panday with Snehlata Panday