Pragnya Ayyagari: Facts About Miss Supranational India 2022

Pragnya Ayyagari is an Indian fashion model and beauty pageant contestant who won the Miss Diva Supranational 2022 title on 28 August 2022.

Pragnya Ayyagari also secured a spot in the Top 10 semi-final round of Supra Chat, held in connection with the Miss Supranational 2023 competition slated to be held on 14th July 2023 in Poland.

In the past, Pragnya Ayyagari has also been one of the Top 5 finalists at the Femina Miss India 2022 pageant. She is quite popular on social media platforms with 73, 400 followers on Instagram.

Physical Stats

Pragnya Ayyagari Family 

Pragnya Ayyagari was born on February 10th, 2002 to Srinivas and Madhavi. Both her parents work in corporate jobs. Pragnya also has a brother, Harsha.

Education

Pragnya did her schooling at St. Andrews School in Bowenpally, Hyderabad. Later, she joined a fashion design course at Inter National Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD) in Himayatnagar, Hyderabad.

Controversies

There are no known controversies available about Pragnya in public sources.

Pragnya Ayyagari Profession

Pragnya Ayyagari belongs to a conservative family in Hyderabad. When she was 13 years old, Pragnya first dreamt of becoming a model. After coming back from school, she used to watch the program ‘Australia’s Next Top Model’ on television a lot.

Later, at the age of 15, she came to know more about pageants and how beauty queens are making India proud. Since then, the teenager started doing her research and found YouTube channels of various mentors and coaches.

Pragnya Ayyagari tried to learn as much as possible from those videos and thus she started building her career in modeling. Since she didn’t have any family members or friends who have been associated with the fashion industry, it was the internet that helped her a lot in gathering more information.

Pragnya’s father and mother both were corporate employees and they worked in a 9 to 5 job. Due to their conservative background, Pragnya’s parents had different dreams about her and thus she joined BSc in mathematics and computer science. However, Pragnya dropped out of college and took up a course in fashion design, an area that she was passionate about since class eight. 

Though Pragnya’s father was fine with his daughter pursuing a career in modeling, her mom was dead against it. Since there was nobody from their family who had opted for a career in the fashion industry,  her mom was quite concerned about Pragnya’s decision.

However, Pragnya Ayyagari was quite determined and focused on her goals. It took almost two years for Pragnya to convince her mom about modeling. She told her about the success stories of all previous beauty queens and fashion pageants so that she gets convinced.

During her college days, Pragnya started modeling. The turning point in her career was winning the Femina Miss India Telangana 2022 pageant. It paved the way for her to represent the state of Telangana at the Femina Miss India 2022 pageant held on 3rd June 2022. Finally, when the results were announced, Pragnya managed to secure a spot among the Top 5 finalists in the competition.

The following year, Pragnya got selected from a group of contestants to represent India at the Miss Supranational pageant. On August 28th, 2022, she was crowned as LIVA Miss Diva Supranational 2022 by Ritika Khatnani, the previous Miss Supranational India and Miss Supranational Asia 2022.

Now Pragnya is all set to represent the country at the Miss Supranational 2023 competition slated to be held on 14th July 2023 in Poland. Meanwhile, in June 2023 she got an entry into the Top 10 semi-final round of the Supra Chat competition held before Miss Supranational 2023.  

Pragnya Ayyagari Net worth

As of 2023, Pragnya Ayyagari’s net worth stands at around Rs.70 lakhs. 

Lesser Known Facts About Pragnya Ayyagari

• During her initial days of modeling, Pragnya faced stiff opposition from her mom as she didn’t want her daughter to pursue that career. However, later when Pragnya won the Miss Diva crown, she saw her mom standing in the audience, cheering her and waving hands to grab her attention. Pragnya says that it was an awesome feeling when she saw her mom rooting for her.

• Pragnya is still connected with her co-contestants in the fashion pageant through WhatsApp groups and they remain good friends. According to her, for an outsider, it may feel like a bunch of girls fighting for the crown, but it is entirely different when you experience it in person.

• Pragnya doesn’t like going to the gym and she burns all her calories by performing the classic old Bharatnatyam. She also practices yoga and eats a sugar-free home food diet without cheating.

• After being crowned LIVA Miss Diva Supranational 2022, when Pragnya arrived at the Hyderabad airport, her family and friends welcomed her with whistles, cheers, and claps. Her family members were holding placards that read ‘proud dad’, ‘proud mamma’, and ‘my sista nailed it’. An overwhelmed Pragna placed her crown on her mother’s head.

• Prragnya wants to start a sustainable fashion brand because she thinks that the fashion industry has become one of the largest polluters. According to her, people can start with small steps such as using one’s bag instead of plastic bags and carrying water bottles instead of those disposable plastic bottles. 

• Pragnya’s mom says that after her daughter won the Miss Telangana pageant, she realized that her daughter has a bright future in the fashion industry and it is also a safe place for her. From that point onwards, she started supporting Pragnya.

• The quote that inspires Pragnya is ‘If you can dream it, you can do it,’  a quote by Walt Disney. During the lockdown imposed due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pragnya was feeling low. At that time she across this quote and has never stopped dreaming since then.

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