Jacqueline Fernandez Is Just Like You And Me

Bollywood megastar, fashion icon, certified sexy goofball – Jacqueline Fernandez couldn’t be more amazing. Except when we find out she’s as real as they come

- Aishwarya Dravid

Before you knew Jacqueline Fernandez as, you know, Jacqueline Fernandez, mega Bollywood star, owner of one cool cat called Miu Miu, she was a teenage girl who went to a Catholic convent school in Bahrain, did chores with her siblings, just like the rest of us, and held on to the dream – a rather ridiculous one at the time she tells us – to become an actress some day. And like thousands of youngsters who move their lives to Mumbai to make it in Bollywood, so did Fernandez, but for a completely different reason altogether. “I knew I wanted to be an actress but it didn’t even occur to me that Bollywood would be accepting of foreign actresses, because it’s a Hindi medium. So, when I first moved here, I wanted to model and make money through that. But then things changed because of a growing dubbing culture, and I realised that I might just be able to fulfil my dream after all. And I got very lucky because Sujoy [Ghosh] spotted me early on and asked me to play Jasmine in Aladin.”