When I became Miss World, I couldn’t believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.
As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.
I don’t like guys who are conventional. I’m an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.
I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.
I’ve been the saddest while I’ve been the most successful, strangely.
I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean.
I know I’m flawed – but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!
I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don’t think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.
My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.
I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat.
I was also told some years ago that I shouldn’t ‘waste my time’ with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.
I wasn’t even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
I was obsessed with Tupac – like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.