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Reita Faria
Indian physician and Miss World 1966 (born 1943)
Reita Faria Powell[1] (néeFaria; born 23 August 1943)[2] is an Indian physician, former model and the winner of Miss World 1966 pageant.
She is the first Miss World winner to be qualified as a medical doctor.[3]
Early life
Reita Faria was born in the Matunga locality of Mumbai (then British India’s Bombay) on 23 August 1943.
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Her parents were Goan Catholics, her father John was from the village of Tivim and his wife Antoinette was from Santa Cruz, Goa.[4] Faria was the couple's second daughter after their eldest, Philomena.
The family was middle class, with her father working in a mineral water factory and her mother running a beauty salon.[5]
Growing up, Faria, with an adult height of 5 feet 8 inches, was unusually tall for an Indian girl and made fun of by schoolboys who nicknamed her ‘mommy long legs’.
Nevertheless Faria used her tall and lean build to her