Pics: Lara Dutta launches her website!

Former Miss Universe and Bollywood actress Lara Dutta, today, launched her very own personal website.

The site (mylaradutta.com) has lots of info right from the beginning of her modelling career to her rise in the Bollywood Film industry. The design of the site is clean and pretty easy to navigate but what the site really lacks is images and wallpapers. Afterall what is a celebrity website without high quality pictures?

Most of those images available on the site aren’t free and can be downloaded only to your mobile phones.

On the other hand, we at Indicine.com bring to you some of the pictures from the event held to launch Lara Dutta’s official website.

Finally here is her story from her website (mylaradutta.com)

I am Lara Dutta and this is my story. I moved to Mumbai from my hometown Bangalore in 1995 to pursue a career in modeling. For me studies and modeling always went hand-in-hand, so with my graduation degree in Economics I managed to bag in campaigns for Bombay Dyeing, Siyaram’s and Synergie for L’Oreal.

My career took a glamorous turn when I walked the ramp for leading designers in India like Shahab Durazi, Rohit Bal, Ritu Kumar, Ritu Beri,etc. My talent and confidence won me Miss India title in 2000 and I proceeded to Nicosia in Cyprus in May the same year and came home with the Miss Universe crown. Not just that, I was the first Miss Universe to win with the unanimous vote of the entire panel of judges.

Along with the crown came the responsibilities. I spent the rest of the year visiting more than 68 countries spreading messages of awareness of AIDS and aiding the girl child. I managed to make time to walk the ramp for designers Randolph Duke, Sean Combs, and Roberto Cavali. I signed contracts to endorse brands like Maurice Lacroix, Longines, Clairol and Mikimoto of Japan.

While living in New York between 2000 & 2001, I hosted a radio talk show for ABC, profiling women achievers from across the globe. On returning home, I joined the Indian film industry and since then there haven’t been any stopping for me, right from my first release “Andaaz” to the latest “Billo Barber”. Besides acting I love to dance. I am a trained Bharatnatyam and Kathak dancer. I also write and read extensively. Having done all my stunts for my films and television commercials, I have become quite an adventure sports enthusiast.