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think a mother deserves the highest respect and when you talk about salary it’ s not always about cash but I feel it’ s the love and respect that you give to someone. My mother has always been the biggest inspiration in my life.
“ All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest salary,” Chhillar said to a wideapplause.
Chhillar is the sixth Indian to win the coveted crown, which was first won by Reita Faria back in 1966. Aishwarya Rai had bagged the title in 1994, followed by Diana Haydon in 1997, Yukta Mookhey in 1999 and Priyanka Chopra in 2000, the last for India.
According to Chhillar’ s profile on the Miss World website, she aims to be a cardiac surgeon and wants to open a chain of nonprofitable hospitals based in rural areas. A trained Indian classical dancer, Chhillar has a passion for outdoor sports and actively participates in paragliding, bungee jumping, snorkelling and scuba diving besides sketching and painting. Her personal motto, as described on the website, reads:“ When you cease to dream you cease to live” and“ Courage to give flight to your
dreams and the ability to believe in yourself makes life worth living”
Chhillar’ s journey began with a fbb campus Princess 2017, where she was crowned one of the finalists from AIMS, during her college fest in 2016. She went on to become fbb Femina Miss India Haryana in April 2017. She was later crowned Femina Miss India in June 2017.
She is 4th beauty with a purpose winner at Miss World 2017. She also became a semi-finalist in Top Model, People’ s choice and multimedia competitions. The campaign’ s goal is to spread awareness about menstrual hygiene. She visited about 20 villages for the project and treated over 5,000 women. On 18 November 2017, Chhillar was crowned Miss World 2017 by outgoing titleholder Miss World 2016 Stephanie Del Valle from Puerto Rico in the finals in Sanya, China..
The first and the second runners-up were Miss England Stephanie Hill and Miss Mexico Andrea Meza at the event, which was televised live globally.
In the top five round, Chhillar was asked which profession according to her deserved the highest salary.
“ I think a mother deserves the highest respect and when you talk about salary it’ s not always about cash but I feel it’ s the love and respect that you give to someone. My mother has always been the biggest inspiration in my life.
“ All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest salary,”
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