When Divya Sieudarsan was a little girl growing up she used to love watching the Miss Universe pageant every year, so much so that her grandfather would tease her and say “I’m going to send you up to become Miss Universe.” She would blush and cringe at the same time; at that point she wanted to be a basketball player.
Yesterday she would have come closest to her granddad’s predictions when she took part in the Miss India Worldwide Pageant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, competing against 40 other contestants from around the world.
According to the pageant’s franchise holder, Divya was one of the stand out contestants in the pre-pageant and turned heads in a Sonia Noel design which received a lot of queries.
The reigning Miss India Guyana had turned down a few local pageants she was approached to get involved in,