Reita Faria
Reita Faria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on August 23rd, 1943 and is the Pageant Contestant. At the age of 81, Reita Faria biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Reita Faria Powell, born in 1943 to Goan parents in British Bombay (now Mumbai), is an Indian physician and former beauty pageant champion who won the Miss World title in 1966, making her the first Asian woman to win the competition.
She is also the first Miss World winner to qualify as a doctor.
Personal life
Faria and her husband, endocrinologist David Powell, who married in 1971, now live in Dublin, Ireland. She has two children.
Career
Faria was born in Bombay. She won the Eve's Weekly Miss India 1966 edition, shortly after winning the Miss Bombay Crown (not to be confused with the Femina Miss India competition, which was won by Yasmin Daji).
She received the 'Best in Swimsuit' and 'Best in Eveningwear' sub-titles for wearing a saree during the Miss World 1966 contest. She later went on to win the Miss World 1966 crown at the climax of the competition, defeating 51 competing delegates from other nations.
She began getting calls to act in films after her one-year tenure as Miss World. Faria stopped lucrative modelling and acting roles and instead concentrated on medical research. Sir J. J. J. was a student at Grant Medical College and she was a student at the Grant Medical College. Group of Hospitals, where she earned her M.B.S. degree. Degree: She then went on to study at King's College Hospital, London, where she later went on to King's College Hospital. She married her mentor, David Powell, in 1971, and the couple moved to Dublin, where she began her medical career.
Reita was a judge at Femina Miss India in 1998 and has returned to judge the Miss World competition on a few occasions. For example, she and Demis Roussos were a judge in the Miss World final of 1976, which was held in London, where Cindy Breakespeare was named Miss World.