In a star-studded career, Diana Hayden has had many roles. Some of the most notable ones include being an actress, model, TV personality, and producer.
Age Of Diana Hayden
She is 49 years old currently.
Biography
A model, actress, television host, and Miss World 1997 winner from India, Diana Hayden was born on May 1st, 1973. Three Indian women have only won the Miss World title. She was the only Miss World winner who took home three more crowns throughout the competition. In the reality competition Bigg Boss in 2008, she participated as a famous competitor.
Hayden was born into a Christian Anglo-Indian household in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. She was a student at Secunderabad’s St. Ann’s High School. She had to begin working at 13 after her parents divorced while she was still in school. She started accepting modeling jobs at Encore, a firm that managed events. BMG Crescendo employed her at 21 as a public relations representative, where she helped oversee the careers of the vocalists Anaida and Mehnaz Hoosein.
Collin Dick, an American businessman from Nevada, is Hayden’s spouse. An international NGO had employed him in Mumbai. Hayden claimed in an interview that she first met Collin when he showed up as a potential tenant to rent her apartment. On September 13th, 2013, they were united in marriage in a private ceremony seen by their loved ones. The wedding was held in a country club in Las Vegas.
She had a girl in 2016. The child was conceived from an egg Hayden had frozen eight years before. Hayden announced her second pregnancy in November 2017. She gave birth to a son and a girl as twins in March 2018.
Profession Of Diana Hayden
At 23, a friend encouraged Hayden to compete in Femina Miss India, which was the start of her pageantry career. She was subsequently selected for the Femina Miss India 1997 competition. Miss India World was awarded to her after she came in second place. At the 47th Miss World competition, which was held in Baie Lazare, Seychelles, she represented India. After the contest, Hayden was named Miss World 1997 after 86 delegates had vied for the title.
She agreed to advertise L’Oréal, Colgate, and Chopard in India following her victory at Miss World. She has affiliations with several organizations, including Child Rights and You (CRY), Greenpeace, PETA, and the Indian Spastics Society. She has lent her support to several initiatives to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and cancer.
After serving as the world’s Miss World representative, Diana Hayden relocated to London. She also attended the Drama Studio London, where she focused on Shakespeare’s plays and received a nomination for Best Actress from the school. She made her acting debut in South Africa’s 2001 Othello movie.
She welcomed Miss Europe, Miss Lebanon in 1997, and Julien Lepers to Lebanon in 2001 and 2002. Diana is currently a celebrity guest lecturer for airline personnel training programs.
On the second season of the Indian television program Bigg Boss, Diana Hayden was a wild card entry in 2008. In Week 13, Bigg Boss’s voting system eliminated her.
She has authored a book titled A Beautiful Truth, which she describes as “an encyclopedia on grooming and also deals with personality development and confidence-boosting.” The book was published on August 6th, 2012, after she spent two years writing it.
She has also been a part of the Bollywood movie Hai Apna Dil Toh Awara, which was released in 2007. She was seen alongside the veteran Amitabh Bachchan.
Diana Hayden joined the team that worked on bringing together the double Oscar-winning 2007 documentary film, Tsunami: The Aftermath, which followed a group of survivors from Sri Lanka who were displaced after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Hayden also helped raise breast cancer awareness by speaking at screenings for Pink Chaddi Campaign in Delhi and Hyderabad in 2011, as well as for Charity Wings to Fly in London, United Kingdom.
About Diana Hayden
Diana and Colleen Kotecha founded a non-profit organization named Pink Ribbon to AIDS Inc. in Mumbai, India, in 2006. The organization’s facilities include a blood and bone marrow donation center and an STD/AIDS research center. She has also worked with the Indian Spastics Society (ISS).
In April 2010, Hayden set up an environmental education program for children affected by deforestation in remote areas of India. The program included building a school for the children and potable water. The school would be split into two separate zones, with the first graders going to a school built with the help of Save Our Planet Foundation (SOPF), while sixth-graders would go to a school where SOPF had built classrooms and facilities. Diana Hayden set up four such schools as part of her environmental education work. Hayden also helped to plant trees and restore streams near two villages.
FAQS
Diana Hayden currently lives in the United Kingdom. She has performed as a celebrity guest lecturer for airline personnel training programs.
Diana Hayden was married to Collin Dick, a businessman from Nevada. They married in 2013 and had their first-born son in 2018.
Diana started her career at 23 when she competed in the Miss India contest. She then went on to become Miss World 1997.
