Poonam Pandey , born on 11th March 1991, is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 and a self-proclaimed cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 fan.

Career

Poonam Pandey is the Kingfisher Calendar girl for year 2011.

In March 2011, she offered to strip naked in front of the stadium crowd if India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup

2011 Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It was Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup...

. A complaint of obscenity was lodged against her at Kotwali Dehat police station on the direction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Balrampur

Balrampur

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, India. The Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

 Women's Wing also filed a police complaint against her in Mumbai.

She didn't go through with her offer of stripping citing lack of permission from the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Board of Control for Cricket in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered at Mumbai, is the national governing body for all cricket in India. It's not the apex governing body in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu...

. She is quoted in an IANS

Indo-Asian News Service

Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is India's largest private news agency. The IANS is run by a group of professional journalists.The IANS was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the India Abroad News Service. It was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service...

 interview stating that the stripping comment worked for her and helped her in getting famous.

It is reported that she also posted a hoax video on Twitter and Facebook - which she later clarified was from a photo shoot for a magazine.

During the India v/s England series in September 2011, Poonam Pandey gained further media attention when she posted bikini clad photographs on Twitter. She was tweeted that "“The world will see that I lived up to my inspiration. now, I am sure my team will beat England."

Recently, she announced the launch of her own website with a claim that people from all over the world could see her live 24x7. She claims to have this kind of website as one of a kind in India.

She is also quoted as saying that a "bikini is not vulgar".

Television Debut

She made her debut on television as a contestant in Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 4  which was hosted by Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...

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