Manpreet Brar won the Miss India

Miss India

Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...

 crown in 1995. She was then first runner-up at the 1995 Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant, behind Miss USA Chelsi Smith

Chelsi Smith

Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith is a former beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who became the first Miss USA in fifteen years to capture the Miss Universe crown on May 12, 1995.-Early life:...

. Brar modeled an ethnic wardrobe designed by Ritu Kumar

Ritu Kumar

Ritu Kumar is an Indian fashion designer, based in Delhi.-Early life and education:A native of Amritsar, Ritu attended Lady Irwin College, in New Delhi, graduating in 1964, and Briarcliff College, New York, USA in 1966.-Career:Kumar has been designing the wardrobes comprising swimwear,...

 and financed by The Times of India

The Times of India

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Manpreet was born on 2 March 1973. She did her graduation from Lady Irwin College

Lady Irwin College

Lady Irwin College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1932, it is women's college and located in New Delhi, India, and offers graduate and post-graduate courses in Home Science.-History:...

, Delhi. She was an honours student of Community Resource Management and Extension. Manpreet was also the college president in her final year B.Sc.

She was engaged to Vivek Oberoi

Vivek Oberoi

Vivek Oberoi is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Suresh Oberoi and Yashodhara Oberoi.- Early life :Vivek attended Mayo college in Ajmer. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek off to New York, where he completed his...

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