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Mumbai: Actress Twinkle Khanna arrive to attend actors Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's daughter Aaradhya's birthday party celebration in Mumbai on Nov 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Image Credit: IANS

Former actress and now writer Twinkle Khanna, famous on social media as Mrs Funnybones, says her father and late legendary actor Rajesh Khanna wanted her to be a writer.

“Dad always said I should be a writer — was proud of my maggot filled poetry — would’ve been beaming that I got that paper in my hand eventually,” Khanna posted on Twitter on Monday while sharing one of her articles.

Khanna started her career as an actress with 1995 film Barsaat, for which she received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

However, after her marriage to actor Akshay Kumar in 2001, she set out to realise her ambitions outside the world of Bollywood. After tasting success in interior designing, she also began writing for a column and subsequently for Mrs Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me — her debut book.