Naaz Is a name she has given herself, Naaz means pride, born
on December 31st 1984 in middle class family, where ideology of born trans
child was not accepted, her parents disowned her, it was the love of her Muslim
mother and grandmother that they decided to send her to their distant relatives
in Mumbai. She grew up in loneliness, at the tender age of 7 she found herself
washing dishes at the roadside dhaba in Malad, and at the same time started
studying at the local school, her nightmare began when her cousin brother who
was then 24 and she was 11, gang raped her multiple times, she was hospitalized
and on death bed, it was the power of saying her no to the odds that kept her
alive. Soon after she got discharged from hospital she met Shabnam, who showed
her the doors of dance bar. She danced at night and studied in day, she ran
away from her uncle's home to feel safe and secure.
Since childhood she was big fan of Bollywood diva Sridevi,
in 1999 she met her cousin sister Viveka babajee who showed her way to fashion
industry.she started doing back stage help, and finally landed at NIFT Delhi,
this time Delhi had new plans for her, she was not welcomed at NIFT But often
mocked by fellow gay students, Naaz found job at Ritu Kumar and then Ritu beri,
but she had to quit the Jobs because men would often want to make physical
contacts with her, and deep down scars of her rape were still there. She wanted
a peaceful life, but then she heard that her twin brother demised, she
contacted her uncle and got the number of her home, she came back to home but
her parents had a condition that she will not tell her true identity to this
world. She stayed them for a while, but this seemed to be a bird living in a
golden cage. Naaz took over her brother's fashion business but it didn't do
well. She eventually decided to sell herself, she wanted to go for sex re
assignment surgery but it had to cost her a bomb. After selling herself for
four years naaz started modelling in 2012 and she captured the eye of ace
fashion photographer Rishi Taneja who captured her life in black and white
series, a television channel and a news magazine took note of her, where this
big channel decided to do story on naaz's life the other had put on their
cover.
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| GORGEOUS AIZYA NAAZ JOSHI |
But this was not the end, she still found difficulty in
getting work in fashion industry, her clients from fashion industry who were
her clients used to blackmail her on being a prostituting and asked her to pack
her bags.
Stubborn Naaz decided to launch her own event company mihm
in 2015 and started working on women empowerment, by now she has done 11 beauty
pageants under her company. She also happens to be India's first trans cover
model on Indian and international magazine, and she is recorded in India book
of records and Limca book of records and in Asia book of records.
In 2016 end Naaz caught up with auto immune disease which is
non curable it's unknown disease, the only option is to take off the spleen, as
that disease has left her with splenomegaly, she is on constant supplements so
that her blood cells don't go down.
In 2018, Naaz has adopted a baby girl and became youngest
transmother in the country to a just 15 days old baby girl, sharanaya Joshi,
who is miss infant universe 2019 also.
Naaz never knew she will be a beauty Queen one day, the
crown she saw on head of Sushmita and Aishwarya will come her way too. In 2017
miss world diversity announced its first edition of online contest and she
became the inaugural queen of miss world diversity. In the year 2018, she went
for ms World Diversity in Dubai, she won again but Indian media did not give
her what she was looking for. Now Naaz is going to Mauritius putting all her hard
work and money that if she wins this time and competing with natural born
women, her country media will support her and inspire others by her story.
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| LOVELY PHOTOSHOOT OF AIZYA NAAZ JOSHI BY JOURNALIST SHIKHA SHARMA |
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