Priyanka Chopra
Fact File on
Priyanka Chopra
Height 5' 7.5''
Bust : 35
Waist : 24
Hips : 34
Weight 53 Kgs
Colour of Hair: Black
Colour of Eyes: Dark-Brown
Date of Birth: Jul. 18,1982
Zodiac: Cancer
She was born on 18th
July 1982 to Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra & Dr. Madhu Chopra.
She is known to her
family and friends as Sunshine & Mimi.
She was a resident
student of La Martiniere Girls College in Lucknow and studied for a
short while at Maria Goretti College in Bareilly.
She completed her
class 10th from Boston USA.
She aims to become a
software Engineer or a Criminal Psychologist.
She was bulldozed by
her friends to take part in the Miss Bareilly contest,which she won
easily.
Ever since Priyanka
won the coveted Femina India-World 2000 title, she has been keeping
herself busy with fashion shows, modelling and even a music video (she
features in the video version of Daler Mehndi's latest album).
She has already
singed a film, Once Upon A Time opposite Rahul Dev. It is a small
budget bi-lingual film in which she plays Dev's love interest
Her hobbies include
singing & writing poetry and she has won prizes for Extempore Speech
and awards for singing and dancing.
On the fashion scene
in the country
"Fashion is not about
being outlandish, it is about being you- yourself. Anything that you
are comfortable in is fashion. "
Her favourite outfit
is
The sari, which she
wears " whenever possible."
She is the only
Indian in USA to have been selected at state level for the National
opus Honour choir.
She is a volunteer
for the Indian Govt. sponsored Polio Eradication Programme, and member
of the support group for the thalassaemic children in U.P
Sushmita Sen is her
role model and her favourite woman personality from Indian history is
Indira Gandhi.
On her Preparations
for Miss World pageant starting on November 30, 2000
With the countdown
already begun for the Miss World pageant. Priyanka is all geared up
for the litmus test.
She has stopped doing
anything else to concentrate on the Miss World Contest as she aware
that she will be shouldering plenty of responsibility when she
participates in the pageant.
Her mom her trainer
To keep abreast of
the latest happenings, she goes through The Times of India, Time
magazine and other journals, also she has put in a lot of training
with her mom.
plus
Apart from brushing
up her general knowledge, Priyanka has been taking lessons " In
diction, make-up, hair and, of course, dressing up,''
Her costume for the
fateful evening
Will be a Ritu
Kumar-designed silver-mesh evening gown.
Good news
Her measurements
have changed for the better since she won the Femina Miss India-World
title.
Food habits?
Weight not being a
problem for her she eats, what she normally likes. However she does
make it a point to eat healthy food and workout daily.
On the odds are
against her?
She does not think
that the odds are against her for the Miss World pageant, as she feels
that everything is different each time --- the locale, the audience,
the contestants and even the judges. In fact, she states that
Venezuela has, in the past, won the Miss World title three years in a
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