Aaital Khosla is an Indian model and beauty queen. She was crowned Glamanand Supermodel India in the year 2015 and represented

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pageant held in

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Personal life and career

Early life and education

Aaital was born in

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in a business/political family. She attended

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and went to MCM DAV College for Women for further studies.

Career and beauty pageants

In December 2015, she competed in

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contest held at

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, placed in the Top 6 and won "Miss Fashion Icon" sub-award. The same year she participated in Palash National Beauty Pageant Chandigarh 2015 contest and was declared 1st Runner Up. Later, she got entry to Palaash National Beauty Pageant 2015 and was crowned the eventual winner. She competed at the second edition of Glamanand Supermodel India, the national preliminary for

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pageant in

and was crowned the winner at the conclusion of the final event held on 4 November 2015 at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in

. Apart from winning the main title she also won three special awards at the pageant, Miss Internet, Miss Eco-Tourism and Miss Productive Beauty. She succeeded Mohini Raaj Puniya as Glamanand Supermodel India and

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. Aaital represented India at the

pageant held in Marx Halle,

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Controversy

In November 2015, Miss Earth India's video representing Aaital went into a big controversy as the videography team showed Mount Everest as an attempt to showcase Himalaya. It became popular and was taken down within 24 hours and a new video was uploaded. It was cleared by the national director Nikhil Anand that the mistake was done was the videography team and the video was taken down as soon as the mistake was realised. She later apologised from her Facebook page.https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/miss-earth-india-apologises-to-nepal/

References

External links

Aaital Khosla at Miss Earth official website

Aaital Khosla @ Miss Earth India Official website with past MEI winners

Femina Miss India Delhi
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