FLASHBACK PICS! When Aishwarya Rai Lost Her Crown To Sushmita Sen

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is the most successful Miss Word winner! She started her career by modelling, went on to win Miss India, then Miss India and finally ruled the Bollywood film industry with her talent and beauty for ages.

In fact she is still ruling the Hindi film industry and is famous all the over the world, truly apt to the Miss World title she won.

When Aishwarya Rai entered the Miss India pageant, everybody already knew her as she was one of the top models in the country and she was one of the most beautiful women but much to everybody's shock the underdog, Sushmita Sen managed to beat Aishwarya to win the coveted title of Miss India Universe.

When Aishwarya Rai Lost Her Crown To Sushmita Sen

Meanwhile Aishwarya won the Miss India World title and later that year both the ladies went on to bag the Miss Universe and Miss World title there by putting our country on the map again!

But everybody always wondered how Sushmita beat Aishwarya and finally now, Cosmopolitan India found the answer.

When Sushmita Sen Won Miss Universe Pageant

When Aishwarya was asked the question "If you have to look for qualities in a husband, would you look for the qualities in Ridge Forrester from Bold & Beautiful or in Mason Capwell from Santa Barbara?", she responsed, "Mason. They do have a lot in common, but from what we see, Mason has a very caring side to him, and a terrific sense of humour. And that really gels with my character."

Sushmita, on the contrary, was asked "What do you know about the textile heritage of your country and how long has it been around?" Her answer: "I think it all started with Mahatma Gandhi's Khadi. It has gone a long way since then but the basics of Indian textile heritage has been from there."

When Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Won Miss World Pageant

These answers by the duo lead to Sushmita beating Aishwarya by a mere 0.2 percent! Interesting info right?

Sushmita Sen And Aishwarya Rai Together Posing With Their Crowns

All Miss World and Miss Universe winners from India posing together!

When Aaradhya Bachchan made her debut on the Miss World 2014 stage.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with her husband and mom at Miss World 2014 pageant.