Pooja Mor is an Indian fashion

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. Mor debuted at

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's Cruise 2016 runway show in

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in 2015.

Career

Whilst at university, Pooja Mor won the

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regional finals for the Clean & Clear Ahmedabad Times Fresh Face in 2012. After her studies she left

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and told her parents she was going on vacation, instead went to

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to try fashion modelling. During this time she entered her second beauty pageant, Indian Princess 2013 and represented her city of Ahmedabad. Pooja Mor went unplaced at Indian Princess International & Indian Princess which was won by

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. Pooja Mor and Jannatul Peya crossed paths again after Indian Princess 2013, both women sharing the October 2016

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cover. Working as a

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, Mor was featured in the November issue of '' Femina India'' in 2013. She was later contacted and signed by her current Indian mother agency, Anima Creative Management. Whilst working in India, another model with

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took a photo of Pooja and posted it on

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, from there came interest from Elite who signed her in 2015. In Spring/Summer 2016, Mor walked for

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in New York. Mor's catwalk fall went viral across the web. In 2016, Mor relocated to New York City to pursue further opportunities. As a fashion model, Mor has walked for

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, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy,

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. Mor has appeared on covers of ''

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'' China, ''

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'' India. . Mor became embroiled in controversy in 2014, when she was depicted as part of the Delhi Gang Rape photoshoot, titled ‘The Wrong Turn’ which went viral on the internet for glamorising the gang rape and subsequent death of an Indian medical student.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mor, Pooja Living people Female models from Uttar Pradesh 1991 births Indian female models