Vida Samadzai

Vida Samadzai
Vida Samadzai performing at a Water Kingdom event in May 2012
Born (1978-02-22) 22 February 1978 (age 46)
Kabul, Afghanistan
NationalityAfghan-American
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationCalifornia State University

Vida Samadzai (born 22 February 1978) is an Afghan-American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was Miss Afghanistan 2003. As the first Afghan woman to participate in an international beauty pageant since 1974, her appearance in a red bikini in the 2003 edition of Miss Earth pageant created controversy in her native country.[1][2] She was a contestant on the popular reality show Bigg Boss in 2011.[3]

  1. ^ Beauty prize for Miss Afghanistan Archived December 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, CNN.com, 10 November 2003
  2. ^ Miss Afghanistan named "beauty for a cause", St. Petersburg Times, 10 November 2003.
  3. ^ "Models, wrestler, transgender: Bigg Boss 5 inmates". Indiavision news. 3 October 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011.