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C OVER STORY 5 INTERESTING THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT SUNNY LEONE W e all know Sunny Leone don’t we? But there are facts about her that you probably didn’t know that will amaze you. Her journey from the adult industry to Bollywood has already proven to be the acid test for her. Sunny has millions of fans and is India’s most searched person on the internet. Her popularity shot over the roof with her item dance gig ‘Baby Doll’.Even though she’s the most googled person of India, most people only know her from her adult movies and Bollywood career and probably search for the same. After all we got a vast “tharki” audience. However this internet winner managed to create a portion of respect within a part of her audience and these facts may give you some more reasons to respect her as a person. Here are 5 things that you probably didn’t know about Sunny Leone. 1. Sunny And Daniel Many people don’t even know that Sunny Leone is mar- ried. Sunny Leone and her dear hubby Daniel Weber are life partners as well as business partners in real life. In fact they both started their production house SunLust pictures in 2009. Apparently Sunny met her husband Daniel through a mutual friend. Even though she did not like him at the first time it took Daniel a good 6 week to convince her and they ended up marrying. They are starting to have their family soon. Before Daniel, Sunny was engaged to the Vice-President of Marketing of Playboy Enterprises, Matt Erikson but sadly things did not work out and they broke up in 2008. 2. Sunny And Commercial Films If you think that Jism 2 is the first time that Sunny came into contact with commercial films after her adult career then you’re wrong.Sunny Leone was involved with cinema (no we’re not referring to the adult one) long before Jism 2, in fact her first stint with films was a cameo appearance in the 2004 Elisha Cuthbert starring film ‘The Girl Next Door’. You missed her right?Well it’s time to grab a DVD and see the movie once again don’t you think? She was approached by Mahesh Bhatt for the film Kalyug but she demanded a lump some $1 million for her role which the producers felt was too much. 3. Sunny Is Also A Director. Another thing that only some people know is that Sunny is also a director and a really good director.Sunny has a great experience as a director and had done a good job in her career. (This time we’re referring to the adult 28 | BOOM