Bipasha Basu was born on January 7, 1979 in New Delhi, India, but later on moved to Kolkata with her family. She is the second of three daughters to her parents, the elder being Bidisha, and the younger—Vijayeta.This Bollywood siren, believe it or not, never wanted to get into acting or modelling; studying medicine was her initial preference.In Kolkata, while she was modelling and doing ramp shows, she met well-known model Mehr Jessia, who suggested that Bips take part in the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest. She eventually participated, and won the contest.After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest, Basu was flown to New York by the Ford Company, where she started her full-fledged modelling career at the age of 17.She even did the famous video Tu for Sonu Nigam's album, Kismat back in her early days, before she became an actress. After that, film offers kept flowing in and Bipasha made her film debut in Abbas Mastan's Ajnabee, with Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol and Karee... more