At her own Pace: Erica Fernandes

WHAT IT TAKES TO SHRED SHEER HARD WORK AND PASSION OF TWELVE YEARS AND MAKE YOUR NAME IN THE INDUSTRY, ERICA JENNIFER FERNANDES CAN TELL. COMPLETING FIVE YEARS OF HER REMARKABLE JOURNEY IN THE INDIAN TELEVISION INDUSTRY, THE MODEL TURNED ACTRESS IS FAMED FOR HER WORK IN KASAUTI ZINDAGI KI AND KUCH RANG PYAAR KE AISE BHI. SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS, AND SETS OUT TO GET EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. HEADLINING PROJECTS IN TELEVISION, MUSIC, AND MOVIES, HERE IS ERICA LETTING US IN ON HER JOURNEY, WELLNESS PHILOSOPHY, TRAVEL TIPS, AND MUCH MORE...

- Soumya Maheshwari

How has your journey been so far?

I started off when I was 16, and now I am going to be 28. It has been a while since I started working and the journey has been a very good learning experience for me because if you see five years down the line, what I was earlier to what I am now is a huge difference and it is because of all that I have learned during these five years. It has been really good being part of the industry.

Is there something that you wish you had done differently in these last years or so?

I do not think that I would have done anything differently in a way to correct it. I would have still done it the same way in a similar manner because I think whatever I have done has only made me learn from it. I believe you learn only from what you do and what you have gone through from your experiences, and that is how you try to better yourself, talk yourself out of it, or get solutions to it. So whatever I am today is probably because of whatever has happened or I have done in the past.

Did you always dream of being on the screen or was there something else that you wanted to do growing up?