Aishwarya Rai Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Aishwarya Rai

• Does Aishwarya Rai smoke? : No

• Aishwarya did her 1st ad commercial for Camlin pencils when she was in the 9th standard. 

• She was a bright student and consistently used to score above 90%.

• If not an actress, she would have either been an architect or in medicine line as she always liked Zoology.

• During her 12th standard, her English professor asked her to do a photo shoot for a fashion magazine, as she was also a photojournalist. After doing it, she started getting modelling offers but she refused them as she wanted to concentrate on her studies. But, after her 12th exams, the glamour world attracted her and she did modelling for a lark.

• Before becoming famous, she tried her luck in voice-dubbing for a TV serial but was rejected.

• In 1993, she came into limelight with her Pepsi commercial alongside Aamir Khan and Mahima Chaudhry.

• She was the hot favorite to win the 1994 Miss India title, but she lost it to Sushmita Sen, mainly due to her lack of public speaking skills.

• During the Miss World title days in South Africa, all the 82 contestants and the organizers gave her a big surprise birthday bash by singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in their respective languages.

• She won the Miss World title on 19 November 1994 in South Africa. 

• Julia Roberts once said that “Aishwarya Rai is the most beautiful woman in the world.”

• She is a trained classical dancer.

• She is the only actress to have featured for both Pepsi and Coca Cola.

• During the making of the song Dola Re Dola from the film Devdas (2002), she suffered from ear bleeding due to heavy earrings. 

• After the success of the film Devdas (2002), Mattel released a limited edition of ‘Aishwarya Rai Barbie dolls’ in the United Kingdom. 

• In 2003, she became the 2nd Indian actress (1st was Parveen Babi) to appear on the cover page of the TIME magazine. 

• During the shooting of her film Khakee (2004), she had an accident due to the out of control car of the stuntman, after which she suffered severe cuts. 

• In 2004, she became the 1st Indian actress to have her wax statue at London’s Madame Tussauds museum. 

• She was offered the role of Breseis in the film Troy (2004), but she turned down the offer.

• She founded the Aishwarya Rai Foundation in 2004 to support needy people in India.

• She was initially signed to play the role of Simmi in the film Bluffmaster (2005), but was later replaced by Priyanka Chopra without any notice. After the film was made, Rohan Sippy, the director of the film added a ‘Special thanks” message for her in the end credits as an apology.

• A variety of Tulip flowers in the Netherlands is named Aishwarya Rai. 

• She and her family own a production company, Target Films.

• She has been supporting the Eye Bank Association of India (EBAI), PETA India, Polio Campaign.

• In 2004, she was voted among 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine.

• Her lavish wedding in 2007 cost around 6 crores (INR), where she wore a 53-carat solitaire engagement ring worth 50 lakh (INR) and received around 15 kg of gold. 

• In 2009, she became the 1st Indian and South Asian actress to appear in the famous Oprah Winfrey Show. 

• Her daughter Aaradhya is popularly known as Beti B.

• She is a good friend of Preity Zinta and Twinkle Khanna.

• She has Katsaridaphobia, i.e. fear of cockroaches.

• She had a photograph with Ranbir Kapoor in 1998, and 18 years later in 2016, they came together in the film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. 

• On 12 July 2020, Aishwarya and her 8-year-old daughter Aaradhya Bachchan, both were tested positive for COVID-19. Earlier, her husband, Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan had also been tested positive on 11 July 2020.

Aishwarya and Aaradhya have also tested COVID-19 positive. They will be self quarantining at home. The BMC has been updated of their situation and are doing the needful.The rest of the family including my Mother have tested negative. Thank you all for your wishes and prayers 🙏🏽

— Abhishek 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧 (@juniorbachchan) July 12, 2020

• In May 2022, a modelling invoice from the initial phase of her career went viral on the internet; the bill dates back to 23 May 1992, roughly two years before she won the coveted Miss World title in 1994. The bill shows that she got paid Rs. 1,500 in lieu of her work for a magazine shoot.
  

  Aishwarya Rai’s modelling bill of Rs. 1500 that dates back to 1992