Tania Vijay Kumar is an Indian

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titleholder who won the Mrs.

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crown in

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in 2003 and subsequently competed in Mrs. World. She first participated in a Miss Country Club pageant while still in college. She was then runner-up in

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"Super model of the year" and a finalist for the

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title in 1998. She worked as a

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Indian beauty pageant winners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Female models from Mumbai {{India-bio-stub