Former Miss World, Diana Hayden believes that India should be happy that the country has several winners even though it has not won an international Pageant in the last 12 years .
The 39 year old said “I think we have gone too greedy, that’s the problem. It’s not about producing Miss Worlds or Miss Universes. If you look at it, there are so many countries, there are over 100 contestants all representing their countries, and there are countries that have never won.
Talking about India’s future at beauty pageant, Diana says ‘Now when we have won so many titles, it’s like ‘Why are we not winning?’ So I think we got to change our attitude and be more supportive and we’ll get a winner. Our women are stunning and intelligent. The best thing about Indian women is that we manage to absorb the East and the West so well.”
Diana became the third miss world in 1997 after Reita Faria (1966) and Aishwarya Rai (1994). Yukta Mookhey won the title in 1999. The year 2000 was a remarkable one in India’s history when Lara Dutta won the Miss Universe title, Priyanka Chopra was crowned Miss World and Dia Mirza was the Miss Asia Pacific.
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