Nicole Faria

Miss Earth 2010

Profile
Popular name   Nicole Faria
Birth name        Nicole Estelle Faria
Birth date         February 9, 1990
Birth place        Bangalore, India
Occupation       Model
Height              1.753 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight              46 Kilos
Measurements   34-25-34
Hair color         Black
Eye color         Brown


Biography
Nicole Estelle Faria is an Indian model from Bangalore and beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of Femina Miss India Earth 2010 and Miss Earth 2010. Faria is the first woman from India to win Miss Earth.

Faria first got into the world of fashion as a fifteen-year-old, working in the industry in Delhi and Mumbai, and in Colombo, Srilanka. Since the international Miss Earth pageant, she has gotten opportunities to break into Bollywood.

In April 2012, she posed for Vogue Australia together with Puerto Rican star Joan Smalls, Australian Shanina Shaik, and Tunisian model Hanaa Ben Abdesslem under the theme, "celebration of diversity with a truly beautiful global issue".  She was then interviewed by Australia's flag carrier, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (Qantas) and was featured in the inflight magazine, Australian Way in its April 2012 issue where she shared her environmental advocacy.