Beauty Queens Turns Nun in Search of Peace
As per the recent news ex- big boss contestant Sofia Hayat who once was a bold and glamorous actor and model has finally turned into a nun. And her transformation decision has come just in a week. 8 weeks before she posted a photo of her in two peace and playing holi. And just one week after she posted another photo of her without makeup and wrote “We are beautiful without makeup…hair colour..Fashion..We are perfect as we are. I’m sorry I gave you the impression otherwise. I am changed. I love you all. Gaia Sofia Mother”
Here are some of the other actress and beauty queens of the world who turned nun and gave up their glamarous life in search of peace.
BARKHA MADAN
A Miss India finalist in the year 1984, Barkha had a very successful stint as a model before her debut Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi in 1996. She enjoyed her life as a actress but then I realized that is this the real motto of her life .She found herself drawn to Buddhism – a feeling she had first had as a child, on a visit to a monastery in Sikkim. In 2002 drawn by the happiness on the Dalai Lama’s face, she approached Lama Zopa Rinpoche asking if she too could become a nun. Soon after, she approached a monastery in Kathmandu asking to join the Buddhist order.
MAMTA KULKARNI
The Bollywood star of Nineties Mamta Kulkarni, who fires the silver screen with memorable performances in movies like Aashiq Awara, Waqt Hamara Hai, Krantiveer, Karan Arjun, Sabse Bada Khiladi and Baazi has become a sannyasin under the tutelage of a saint Shri Chaitanya Gagangiri Nath.
She has not applied makeup nor has gone to a beauty parlour for the last 12 years, she told a Bollywood journalist Soumyadipta Banerjee.
DOLORES HART
Dolores Hart when she started her acting career as a young woman. And that career took off pretty fast! At the age of 18 she landed a part playing Elvis Presley’s love interest in the 1957 movie Loving You. Famously, she gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss in that role. Then, suddenly, at the age of 24, engaged to be married and a rising Hollywood star, she announced she was leaving it all to become a nun. She later explained that she had a turning point while filming Francis of Assisi, in which she played St. Clare of Assisi. She met Pope St. John XXIII in Italy during the filming, and when she introduced herself, “I am Dolores Hart, the actress playing Clare,” he responded, “No, you are St. Clare of Assisi!”
OLALLA OLIVEROS
Olalla Oliveros was a famous Spanish model of her time and one day she experienced a dream where she saw herself in a dress of a nun and then But she couldn’t shake the image. She eventually concluded that Jesus was calling her to give up her glamorous life and become a nun.
“The Lord is never wrong,” she said. “He asked if I will follow him, and I could not refuse.” She is now a member of the semi-cloistered Order of Saint Michael.
AMADA ROSA PÉREZ
Amada Rosa Pérez was one of Colombia’s most successful models before she disappeared from the public eye ten years ago. And then she returned and explained what she was doing all those years. she had a religious conversion and was working with a Marian religious community. And in her life a had a disease which enabled her to hear, that is when she turned to god.
Now, she regularly goes to Mass, goes to Confession, prays the Rosary, and prays the Divine Mercy Chaplet. “Before I was always in a hurry, stressed out, and got upset easily,” she explained. “Now I live in peace, the world doesn’t appeal to me, I enjoy every moment the Lord gives me.”
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