Neha Dhupia

Dhupia was born in Cochin (present-day Kochi), India to a Sikh family.[3][2] Her father, Commander Pradip Singh Dhupia, served in the Indian Navy and mother, Manpinder, (Babli Dhupia) is a homemaker. She went to Naval Public School, Cochin then transferred to Navy Children School, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. She graduated from Jesus and Mary College in New Delhi, affiliated to the University of Delhi, with honours in History.[4]

Dhupia made her acting debut in a play in New Delhi called Graffiti. Thereafter she appeared in a music video for Indipop band Euphoria and modeled for advertisement campaigns. She then appeared in the TV serial Rajdhani. In 2002, she participated in the Femina Miss India pageant, where she was crowned as Miss Universe India 2002. She was subsequently sent to the Miss Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico where she placed in the top 10.[5] After placing in the pageant, Dhupia intended to pursue a career in the Indian Foreign Service, but turned to acting instead.[6]

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Dhupia has modeled on the runway for designers such as Rohit Bal and D'damas.[9] In 2016, Dhupia conceptualized and hosted a Bollywood podcast called #NoFilterNeha on the Indian music app Saavn, in which she interviews Bollywood celebrities. The show received positive reviews, with over 2.3 million listeners. Dhupia debuted season four in November 2019 and plans to expand the podcast into a web series.[10]

Dhupia and Angad Bedi in 2019

Dhupia has run in the Mumbai Marathon to support the Concern India Foundation and helped to raise over 5 lakhs.[11] She also helped to raise money for victims of the 2011 Sikkim earthquake.[12] She performed at the GR8 Women's Award 2012.[13]

She also participated in the Hiru Golden Film Awards 2014 in Sri Lanka as a special guest along with Bollywood actors such as Sunil Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Anil Kapoor, and actress Bipasha Basu.[14]

She started dating actor Angad Bedi and the couple decided to get married in a private ceremony at a Gurudwara on 10 May 2018.[15] On 18 November 2018, she gave birth to a girl.[16] Neha Dhupia has been fat-shamed for her post-pregnancy weight gains by certain sections of the media.[17]

Just few days after 2020 International women's day, Indian actress Neha Dhupia was trolled for her defense in a reality TV show in favor a lady who allegedly had 5 boy friends as 'her choice'; and lashing out at one of boy friend who admitted during show that he had slapped his girl friend for cheating on boy friends. The alleging trolling memes questioned dichotomy that same show panelists using cuss words about mother of the contestant who allegedly accepted to have slapped his girl friend; also that in one of earlier shows she condones a girl slapping a boy[22] and also that many memes expressed shock at her defending a woman's infidelity, having multiple boy friends, and cheating on some. Neha Dhupia answered back saying while she does not stand with cheating on some one, same time ‘adultery’ is a moral choice and moral choice is always ambiguous and personal choices of each individual and that she was angered for violence against a girl for her personal choices.[23][24][25][26]

In March 2020, she was trolled on social media after a clip went viral on the internet of the reality show MTV Roadies where Dhupia threw abuses at a male contestant who claimed to have slapped his girlfriend for cheating on him with 5 men. Many comments towards her described her reaction as hypocritical after she did not react with such outrage to a previous incident on Roadies where a female contestant said she had slapped four men, but with support towards the female contestant instead. She was accused of misrepresenting what feminism and gender equality stand for through her hypocritical statements.[27][28] Dhupia still stands by what she said on Roadies.[29]

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