Pooja Hegde Talks About Navigating Through The Film World
Grazia|April 2022
Former beauty queen, and actress Pooja Hegde talks about navigating through the film world and giving back to her community
Pooja Shah
Pooja Hegde Talks About Navigating Through The Film World

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If you told any one of Pooja Hegde's 18.9 million Instagram followers that she used to be a tomboy growing up, they'd be surprised. After all, her social media grid is peppered with images of her donning fashionable attire and stunning jewellery. But as a child, Hegde was an introvert who came from an academically driven family; acting and playing dress-up were not part of her upbringing.

“I was never the girl who would go into my mom's vanity and steal her lipstick or make-up. I didn't even know how to wear make-up, and I had short hair, she says.

Hegde ultimately participated in Miss India 2009 and earned the sub-title Femina Miss Talented, as fate would have it. She was crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe India pageant a year later. Surprisingly, it was pageantry that instilled in her strength and confidence and exposed her to a new world.

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