First Miss Great Britain of Indian origin

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We have reached yet another milestone as a community, one that was critical to our development. A desi of Indian origin has seized the coveted Miss Great Britain title!

With so few beauty pageant titles left unclaimed by the rising tide of brown in swimwear and heels, it was very important that we capture each of the remaining tiaras:

British-born Preeti Desai has become the first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title replacing original winner Danielle Lloyd after she was stripped off the award for reportedly dating Judge Teddy Sheringham and agreeing to pose for Playboy magazine. [Link]

As with many winners, she has a heart-warming story behind her victory, one of filial piety:

Preeti gave all credit to her mum, who is recovering, from a serious illness. “When she was crowned Miss Great Britain she rang to tell me and said, ‘The crown is for you.’ I burst into tears. I felt as if I won that crown. I felt as if I am Miss Great Britain. She only wants to see me happy – both my girls do. They want to see me smiling thanks to them I was able to overcome that dreadful illness,” Hema said. [Link]

Like all good desi children, Preeti is multi-talented and ambitious. She worked for years in hair and beauty, before making a career switch to the family fireworks business and she may now be trying to get into property investment. In what I think are her own words:

She then started, and is currently working for the family business G2 Fireworks full time and was made Jr partner, which she built up after years of working for G2 Fireworks from being a child… Recently she decided to move to London and work as a model until she raised enough money to eventually get into the property business. [Link]

If you’re a fan, you can read her myspace page and personal website.

424 thoughts on “First Miss Great Britain of Indian origin”

  4. Do you think it’s deplilated? I thought brown women were just naturally hairless. I mean, they’re asians, right?

  8. Now if my mom set me up with women like her, I’d be all about arranged marriages…

    As a newcomer to SM, I must say you have the right marketing strategy: sophisticated conversation + hot girls

  9. (Can we please run the following experiment: Let’s try in this thread to avoid terms like “hitting it” or “I’d do her” or other puerile sexist crap. Thanks.)

  10. not the first. the first was an afghan. she was actually touted as a role model of sorts… well maybe not… but was profiled in a cbc series on how the second gen muslims in the uk have to live a schism.

    by the way, her naarha is hanging out out of her kuchha. very uncouth.

  12. She looks a little like Indira Varma – similar noses, facial features. And, I too appreciate the depilation. Only yesterday, I discovered these two (though I don’t care for their herpetological sidekicks).

  13. (Can we please run the following experiment: Let’s try in this thread to avoid terms like “hitting it” or “I’d do her” or other puerile sexist crap. Thanks.)

    if miss great britain read those type of comments, she would feel a lot more proud of her accomplishments right

  14. Not to be a hater or nuthin’, but she looks disturbingly scrawny to me. I know, I know, that’s still the fashion, but my aesthetics prefer a little more flesh.

  18. Do you think it’s deplilated? I thought brown women were just naturally hairless. I mean, they’re asians, right?

    Are you joking?

  19. Not sure if I see the Indira Varma resemblance, but she looks like my sister-in-law (who is also Gujurati).

    Is that the browski?

  20. Do you think it’s deplilated? I thought brown women were just naturally hairless. I mean, they’re asians, right?
    Are you joking?

    This just in– yes.

  24. I love her family business

    We provide an exciting and dynamic fireworks service from high quality DIY fireworks for sale all year round to amazing professionally fired displays that will take your breath away.

    Well they say there is not a single business type in the world that a Gujarati somewhere does not own. But the best thing is her father’s title:

    Mr Jitu Desai – Master Pyrotechnic

    MASTER PYROTECHNIC!!!

    Holy Snapper! A MASTER no less — Master Pyrotechnic!

    I want to answer someone at a party, hey what d’you do, hey, I’m a Master Pyrotechnic.

    Coolest Dad in Great Britain too, I reckon. Can you imagine at school, everyone else is like, oh, my Dad, he’s a postman, a teacher, a truck driver, a doctor — well screw you my Dad’s a muthafuckin’ MASTER PYROTECHNIC!!

  25. My “sample population” exposure suggests otherwise.

    …say more. your N is likely larger. i have heard that hirsuteness exhibits some dominance effects, so east asian admixture in bengal might be irrelevant.

  26. random thoughts

    1. why is she wearing a sash saying cleveland. OhaihaiO

    2. her bum looks like something’s taken a bite out of it.

    3. there’s a tumescent jigsaw piece pointing to her nether regions.

  28. your N is likely larger.

    Let’s leave my N out of this, shall we? I’ll just say that I wouldn’t submit statistics based on it to Science or Nature. PNAS, perhaps, but then again, you can get just about anything published there.

  29. 1. why is she wearing a sash saying cleveland.

    Because she comes from Cleveland in the north-east of England, the original Cleveland, and she was probably representing that area in the Miss Great Britain competition.

  30. HEY. I saw you in those shorts too, Forgetful Jones.

    yes, but you didn’t comment on my lack of body hair. v-man did, and compared it favorably to his lack of body hair (and people wonder about him…hmm….).

  31. yes, but you didn’t comment on my lack of body hair. v-man did, and compared it favorably to his lack of body hair (and people wonder about him…hmm….).

    bengalis have fabulous unibrows. malloos have fabulous ear-hair. panjabiis are just fabulous all over.

  32. Because she comes from Cleveland in the north-east of England, the original Cleveland, and she was probably representing that area in the Miss Great Britain competition.

    thanks for the tit-bits. you too snapper.

  33. Firstly, how wonderful.

    Secondly (and this is probably old lady jealousy on my part, I admit) but I agree with Nina P. I see the skinny-skinny is still all the fashion rage. I mean, eternal nineties waif Kate Moss is still a, uh, star. Hmmmm, on a purely aesthetic level, I always preferred the Marilyn Monroe type of curviness, but that started it’s own ‘pretty girl’s have curves’ hegemony. As Audrey Hepburn’s surprise (initially) stardom subsequently showed.

    Thirdly, why am I commenting on this post again? sin, sin? I’m sorry to hear about the rains, and hope all of your loved ones are safe, but, when you get a chance, more pictures of the XY variety, please. The neschool feminism is so about equal opportunity objectification. Old-school feminists are rolling over as I type…..

  34. yes, but you didn’t comment on my lack of body hair.

    Was I supposed to comment on it? Upon being introduced to you, I told you that you were unexpectedly adorable and I believe I squealed such a declaration at a sorority-approved pitch and decibel level. Beyond that, I dug your gf too much to play homewrecker. 😀

  36. Forget body hair discussions. Remember, silicon is safe, again (Extremely cheap shot; unworthy of me, of course. Chalk it up to Old lady jealousy…..grrr!)

  38. 3. there’s a tumescent jigsaw piece pointing to her nether regions.

    The jigsaw piece says,” Breast Cancer (Something),” which doesn’t make sense, but makes me smile because it doesn’t make sense.

  39. I’m so proud to see the crown — with all the jewels included — on a British desi’s head!

    Regarding the hair discussion, is the South Asian population more at risk of carrying genes for alopecia than mainstream groups?

  40. forget p-values. Think, study design and patient selection……anyway, I was joking 🙂 Dude, if those are real, I never had a chance to begin with! Also, some people get all the genetic luck……

  41. is the South Asian population more at risk of carrying genes for alopecia than mainstream groups?

    i think alopecia is whites & browns > africans > east asians.

    here’s a post by a co-blogger on hairiness which offers ‘scientific’ evidence that brownz are the hair-bomb.

    anna, re: my hairiness, i only wanted to point out that my self-assessment has validation via v-man’s visual inspection. since you didn’t offer an opinion on that trait i couldn’t offer yours as support for the veracity of my claims.

  43. namitabh bachan: I’ve often wondered. You see hair loss in older South Asian women quite often. Something to look up.

  44. Secondly (and this is probably old lady jealousy on my part, I admit) but I agree with Nina P. I see the skinny-skinny is still all the fashion rage. I mean, eternal nineties waif Kate Moss is still a, uh, star. Hmmmm, on a purely aesthetic level, I always preferred the Marilyn Monroe type of curviness, but that started it’s own ‘pretty girl’s have curves’ hegemony.

    Emdee-di, I don’t think it’s “old lady jealousy” at all (and who you callin’ old???). When I saw this picture, the first thing I noticed was how thin she was. Even Kate Moss has some flesh now (perhaps it is what’s responsible for her horrid taste in men).

    Anyway, if I had to stray that way, I’d be salivating over Scarlett Johansson, Beyonce, even J-Lo before someone skinny. More spankable acreage and whatnot. YMMV.

  45. gotta say that i’m happy to see that “western” societies are recognizing that beauty comes in other forms than the “lightskin, blond hair, blue eyes” variety.

    that said, i’m also a little perterbed at her longness. she looks really tall! perhaps my generalization doesn’t hold true, but aren’t most indians (and if she’s gujarati, all the more so) on the short side.

    perhaps there is a place where one can get lengthening treatments.

  47. Not to be a hater or nuthin’, but she looks disturbingly scrawny to me. I know, I know, that’s still the fashion, but my aesthetics prefer a little more flesh.

    She is stunning but I second Nina P & MD. I’d be curious to know how much she weighs and her height. I know tiny petite women that can eat like horses but are naturally skinny so I wouldn’t fault someone for being skinny but there are shots where here head looks as big as her waist and that’s kinda creepy.

    As for the Indian hairy thing, I always thought the average Indian is super hairy. Not until you see other women go thru hell to remove it do you realize there is yet another thing you can be grateful to your parents for…hairlessness. The last SM meetup involved a number of unnamed Mutineers comparing levels of hairness!

  48. that said, i’m also a little perterbed at her longness. she looks really tall! perhaps my generalization doesn’t hold true, but aren’t most indians (and if she’s gujarati, all the more so) on the short side.

    she’s 5’8. depends on the ethnicity, but we haven’t seen brownz populations on a high cal. diet to a great extent. i’d south and east brownz are shorter than the european norm. northwest brownz (punjabis) are tall, though not as tall as northern europeans or nilotic blacks (i’ve seen data for a median of 5’8 for pashtuns in 1965, and they don’t eat as well as americans).

  49. So is this the first time a Desi will pose in Playboy?

    Also, she’s “sexy” in a model way and everything, but I don’t think she’s all that hot. I’m with Nina and MD, I prefer some badonk.

    N-not to be sexist…