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Her
husky-honey voice is a surprise coming from her gamine
visage. A closer look reveals twinkling warm cognac eyes.
She was the star in superhit pop song "Oh Carol" by Stereo
Nation. This is also one of my favourite songs.
The highlight of her young life has been winning the Look of
the Year contest for which she was very focussed indeed and
the fact that she didn't even place for the international
contest held in Nice in September didn't faze her one bit.
"Look, I did my best. I prepared intensively, worked out, ate
the right things, watched my diet strictly, was very
motivated. Then I go to Nice and find the contest dominated
by 14 and 15-year-olds who have been modeling for some time
already and are even more frighteningly focussed than I was.
The winner was a 15-year-old Rumanian girl who was perfect to
look at and even thinner than me. My roommate was 14, an
American girl, who knew exactly where she was going and what
she wanted to do with her life. So…'' she laughs, eyes
crinkling up, enjoying herself hugely inspite of everything.
Has being the sub-continental Look of the Year changed her
life in any way? "Not as much as people tend to think," says
the young lady drily. "For one thing, people aren't exactly
falling over themselves to sign me up for television or
print. I'm too dark, most of them feel. I talked to Noyonika
(Chatterjee) about it and she said 'Talk about it to people,
to everyone'."
The family is small and close (one brother), her extended
family is also very much around, college is high on her list
of priorities and she knows modelling can't last forever.
She's smart enough to say that if she had to choose between a
high-profile fashion show and her final exams in March/April
1999, she'd pick the latter because she doesn't want to lose
a year. First the degree, then possibly an MA and then, who
knows, a PhD in child psychology. Because that is what she'd
like to do, work with children, not in the Misses World way
but permanently. She likes them, she likes the subject and
while confessing to being a pretty average student, she has
that extra edge now that winning a major looking-good contest
gives young women nowadays. She could go anywhere, do
anything, and she knows it.
She calls herself fun, predictable, crazy and naive!
Loves children, her friends, food and music.