Ewa Laurance

Ewa Laurance (aka Ewa Mataya aka the Striking Viking) was born on February 26, 1964 in Gävle, Sweden. She is a Swedish-American professional pool player, most notably on the Women's Professional Billiard Association nine-ball tour. She is also a sports commentator for ESPN.

Laurance is playing pool since she was 14 years old in her native country and moved to the United States in 1983.

She has authored three books related with pool i.e. The Ewa Mataya Pool Guide, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pool and Billiards and Quick Start Guide to Pocket Billiards. She has also written monthly columns for the Pool & Billiard magazine.

In 2004, she was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.

In 2005, Ewa Mataya Laurance bested three of her peers, WPBA tour members Allison Fisher, Dawn Hopkins, and Gerda Hofstatter, at the Women's Trick Shot Challenge held at the New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, pocketing $25,000 as the grand prize.

She has also done modeling for many brands.

Sonal Udeshi

Sonal Udeshi is 22yrs old 5' 4" tall curvaceous model from India. She is sister of famous supermodel turned actress Mashumi Udeshi. She has appeared in many advertisings of leading brands in India.

Kamal Sidhu

Kamal Sidhu was born in 1971 in Canada. She won the title of Miss India Canada in 1991. She is one of the hot models in India. She also worked as an actress in Hindi film Aar Ya Paar (1997) with Jackie Shroff, Deepa Sahi, Ritu Shivpuri and Paresh rawal. She was once a VJ for MTV India and currently she is anchoring an environmental series "EarthPulse" on National Geographic.

Amrita Saluja

Amrita Saluja was born on November 26 in Jamshedpur, India. She is an Indian actress and model. She was debuted in Hindi film Humko Ishq ne Mara in 1997. She is famous as Whirlpool Mom for her Whirlpool advertisement in India.

Stephanie Ly

Stephanie Ly was born on 27 November 1981 in Calgary, Canada. She is 153 cm tall brown eye babe has become one of Canada’s most sought after model. She earned her degree in accounting and worked for a few years but became a model almost by accident when a friend asked her to help at a sport compact event.

Megan Fox

Megan Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. She is an American actress, model and best known for her roles in the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 film Transformers. In 2006, she was ranked number sixty-eight on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women.

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi was born in September 1, 1970. She is a New York based Indian-American model, actress and award-winning cookbook author. She modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren and Alberta Ferretti and done ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She gave her acting performance in Glitter with Mariah Carey and in Boom with Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Madhu Sapre, Katrina Kaif and Zeenat Aman and in 2005 in The Mistress of Spices with Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Ayesha Dharker.

She has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef since season two and an ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.

Padma and her novelist husband Salman Rushdie filed for divorce on July 2, 2007.

Check out more about Padma at her official website.

Mugdha Godse

Mugdha Godse was born on 26th July. She is 5' 9" tall Indian model. She did her BCom from Symbiosis College (Pune University). In 2002, she won the Gladrags Mega Model Contest and the Miss Body Beautiful contest. At the Ponds Femina Miss India Contest, 2004, she won the Miss Perfect 10. She participated in Best Model Of The World 2002 and won award for the best National costume as Miss India.

Urvashi Sharma

Urvashi Sharma is 5ft 8 in tall model turned actress makes her debut in Bollywood with Abbas Mastan’s romantic thriller Naqaab: Disguised Intentions. Naqaab stars Bobby Deol and Akshay Khanna opposite her. Urvashi did modelling for Ponds, Garnier, TBZ and Globus. She also performed in a hot music video Something Something Meri Jaan with Mika. She is a very good dancer. Check out our previous post about Urvashi here.

Maomi Yuuki

Yuuki Maomi was born on 2nd March. She is 26 year old beautiful singer, idol from Saga prefecture in the south-west corner of Japan. She started off as a news reporter but became a singer and actress.

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Esther Baxter

Esther Baxter was born on September 23, 1984. She is an African American model and an aspiring actress from Miami, Florida.

Sandhya Shetty

Sandhya Shetty was born on 29th May. She is 5'9" tall dusky Indian actress and versatile fashion model. She was Femina Miss India finalist in 2000 and was 1st runners up in Vatika Ford Supermodel 2002.

Meera Vasudevan

Meera Vasudevan born on 29th Jan is an Indian actress and fashion model who acts in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam movies. Her latest released film is Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii where Rahul Bose is in lead role. She debuted in Hindi movie cinema with film Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula in 2003.

Haifa Wehbe

Haifa Wehbe was born on March 10, 1976 near South Lebanon. She is a Lebanese model, actress and singer. She rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later with release of her debut album Huwa az-Zaman (Time). She was also the winner of the title of Miss South Lebanon at age sixteen only.

In the 2006 Edition of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women by the AskMen.com, she was ranked 49th.

Yuko Ogura

Yuko Ogura was born on November 1, 1983 in Mobara, Chiba, Japan. She is a popular Japanese idol, singer, model and TV personality who typically looks like a cute, innocent schoolgirl. She is well known for her japanese song "Onna no Kootoko no ko" which is the ending theme of the anime School Rumble.

Nina Manual

Nina Manual was born in Mumbai, brought up and educated in Kuwait and Bahrain. She is a VJ and model from India who started modelling from her school days. Nina received fame by winning the Femina Look of the year in the year 1995.

Mrinalini Sharma

Mrinalini Sharma is a model who will appear in Mahesh Bhatt's Bollywood flick Awarapan along with Imran Hashmi and Shriya Saran. The stylish thriller Awarapan has been shot in Hong Kong and Bangkok.

She also did an item number for Prakash Jha’s movie Apaharan where Ajay Devgan and Bipasha Basu was in lead role.

Urvashi Sharma

Urvashi Sharma is an Indian model who is making her Bollywood debut in Abbas-Mustan film Naqaab. This suspense thriller contains Bobby Deol and Akshaye Khanna in lead role.

Urvashi has signed an eight-film contract with TIPS Films. TIPS, in the past has launched actors such as Preity Zinta, Shahid Kapur and Amrita Rao.

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts was born on October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia. She is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She got the fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, Pretty Woman, opposite Richard Gere. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich.

She was the first actress to appear on the cover of Vogue and the first woman to land on the cover of GQ. She has been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" a record-setting eleven times, tied with Halle Berry. In 2001 Ladies Home Journal ranked her as the 11th most powerful woman in America beating out then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and first lady Laura Bush.