There have been many celebrities on Indian television who wooed the audiences but there is something really exceptional with the former adult-star Sunny Leone. Be it her groovy pole dance in Bigg Boss 5 or the way she portrayed various characters in her debut erotic thrillers or, okay! …her curves to die for and a winning smile, this Indo-Canadian ‘Babydoll’ caused a stir among the national audiences in just over a couple of years. Breaking out on social media and internet searches was just another story. Here are 20 facts, we bet, you didn’t know about Sunny Leone:
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Sunny’s real name is Karenjit Kaur Vohra. She later picked up 'Sunny Leone' as a name for her adult career when she first posed for an adult men's magazine called Penthouse in March 2001.
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Sunny Leone was studying to be a pediatric nurse before she could step into the Adult Industry. She joined the adult film industry at the age of 19.
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She discovered her bisexuality at the age of 18.
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Before working in the porn industry, Sunny worked in a German bakery, at Jiffy Lube, and later at a tax and retirement firm.
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Sunny was to make her debut in Bollywood with a cameo in the film 'Kalyug' but due to her financial expectations of a $1 million, director Mohit Suri retreated. 7 years later, she finally made a debut in Bollywood with 'Jism 2'.
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Sunny appeared on the Indian television for the first time in 2005 as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India.
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Sunny Leone happens to be the first Indian adult film star to make an entry into mainstream Bollywood films.
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Sunny, who loves to travel has been to India four times before she started working in the country.
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In 2010, she was adjudged as one of the 12 top female stars in porn by leading men's magazine, Maxim.
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"I informed my parents that I want to be a porn star after I won the Penthouse cover-of-the-year and 100, 000 dollars," she once revealed in an interview