Friday 27 January 2012

Amy's new rules of style

Amy Jackson
One of the smaller switches she's had to make in recent times, to be sure. Only Amy knows just how transplanted her current life is. Having grown up a hardy tomboy, riding horses on her family's farm in suburban Liverpool, had someone told her that her life was about to take a turn for the glamorous, she'd have left them standing there in a cloud of her horse's dust.
Amy Jackson
As these things tend to go, Amy was approached by the head of modelling agency, Premier, and just like that, the ball was set rolling. No sooner was she signed on by the agency that the plaid-and-breeches girl transformed into a beauty queen, quickly going on to win a spate of big ticket beauty pageants
Amy Jackson
At 15, after winning Miss Teen Liverpool and Miss Teen Great Britain, whose prizes included a modelling contract in the US on a scholarship, she shifted to America with her mum. And at 16, she bagged the big one: Miss Teen World 2008
Amy Jackson
She then received a call from her new modelling agency, Boss, telling her a South Indian movie director had seen her pictures on Google and was flying over to meet her. "When I met Vijay, he asked if I could act or dance, and I said, 'I have no idea', laughs Amy. But the director's mind was made up, and a week later, the raven-haired beauty who'd only just turned 17, found herself in stifling Chennai, preparing for her Tamil debut, .
Amy Jackson
Madrasapattinam was a runaway hit, and Amy's performance roundly appreciated. At the premiere, Vijay introduced her to his friend Gautam Menon, another prolific south Indian director. And a week later, Menon called to say he was directing a Bollywood film and he wanted Amy for the lead.
Amy Jackson
Once more, she said yes to fate— she'd already done a film, how different could it be? "What a shock to the system, she says, sounding a bit in shock still. "I had to change everything—learn to dance, learn Hindi, learn to be this character who I'm not at all like in real life, she adds. What about the off screen implications of being a Bollywood personality? The tabloids have already got her cast in a searing romance with her good looking ..
Amy Jackson
I get so scared of the stuff in the papers. I'm not dating Prateik, but I'm very fond of him. It will take me a while to get used to hearing about myself in the news, she says. "For now, I'm not yet 'big', so I'm trying to enjoy the privacy while it lasts, she says.
Amy Jackson
Does she find time to be homesick? "At first I did, but my family and friends visit me often, and people have been so lovely to me here—I shifted to Mumbai in September and already it has become my second home, she says. She tells me she's having fun discovering the city and the food, the latter a bit haltingly. "I've always loved butter chicken, she reveals. "When I got here, it's the first thing I ordered because I thought it would be best to .

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