Celina Jaitly is amongst the breed of Bollywood actresses, who have made it big in the industry after a career in modeling and winning a beauty pageant. This stunningly beautiful actress has acted in a number of movies during her career.
Net Worth: Rs 1.25 crore
Income Sources: Celina Jaitly’s main sources of income were modeling and film acting. She has also endorsed brands like Diya Diamond Jewelry and Egyptian Tourism.
Born: 24th November, 1981 (33 years old)
Marital Status: She is married to Austrian business tycoon and hotelier, Peter Haag since 2011 and resides in homes in Mumbai, Dubai and Singapore. She has twin boys called Winston and Viraaj.
Height/Weight: 5 feet 6 inches, 52 kg
Personal Background
Celina Jaitly was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh and is of mixed ethnicity, with a Punjabi Brahmin father and Afghan Hindu mother. Her father V K Jaitly is a retired colonel who had served in the Indian Army, while her mother Meeta was a beauty queen and had served as a nurse in the Indian Army, giving her an army background with a disciplines upbringing. She was raised in different cities around the country as her father was transferred from place to place, though she spent a major part of her life in Kashmir and the North east, particularly in Kolkata. Celina had an ambition to serve the country by joining the army as a pilot or a doctor, but fate had something else in store for her and took her into the glamour world. She got engaged to an Austrian businessman, Peter Haag in 2011 and married him later that year. She was blessed with twin boys in 2012. Besides her acting skills, Celina Jaitly has been involved in a number of humanitarian projects such as speaking up for women’s and children’s rights and also supporting homosexuality in the country. She has also pledged her eyes to the Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital in Mumbai, to raise consciousness about eye donation. Celina is also an avid supporter of PETA and has done a photo shoot for the organization.
Career Graph
Celina Jaitly started her career in modeling at the young age of 16 years. She participated the most prestigious beauty contest in the country, Femina Miss India in 2001 and won the title of Femina Miss India Universe. She then represented the country in Miss Universe contest in that year and went on to stand at the fourth position. She was then featured in a music video called “Oh Kehri” by Jazzy B. Her Bollywood debut came in 2003, with a film called “Janasheen”, in which she was cast opposite Fardeen Khan. Next came “Silsilay”, which did no wonders on the box office, but she got her first hit with “No Entry”, in which she acted with some big names in Bollywood like Anil Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Salman Khan and Bipasha Basu. She worked in a number of films after that, which included “Apna Sapna Money Money”, “Shakalaka Boom Boom”, “Golmaal Returns”, “Tom, Dick and Harry” and “Red: The Dark Side”.
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