Malika Haydon is featured in the May 2012 issue of Cosmopolitan India. DJ, Kingfisher model and Agent Vinod hottie, Malika Haydon, loves her curves, and loves food even more.
In the issue:
DJ, Kingfisher model and Agent Vinod hottie, Malika Haydon, loves her curves, and loves food even more.
“Growing up, I was always a skinny, gangly teenager and with puberty, I filled out almost overnight,” Malika says in a rolling American accent. “I had all these curves suddenly, and I didn’t know what to do with them. It took a while to relax into this new body.” Ah, yes, puberty, I nod. But that wasn’t the last of it. “Then I began modelling at 18,” she says. “My body was not like my sister’s (supermodel and actor Lisa Haydon is her younger sister), which is straight and slim and looks great in just about anything. I had hips!” Malika admits it was a tough time, and she was miserable. “I became obsessed with my weight. Finally, I decided it had to stop. I had to accept my curves, and I’ve been in a good space since.”
Now where is that accent from? Wasn’t she born and raised in Hyderabad? She laughs, “Yeah, but I studied in an international boarding school—I had American teachers and that’s where it stuck.” Malika is no wide-eyed Bollywood starlet in the making. “Acting’s interesting, but I’ve not thought about it,” she shrugs. Right now, it’s her music career that has her bopping. She is one half of the DJ duo, The Electroverts, (the other half is her best friend Nina Shah), which produces progressive house and electronic music. The girls have played gigs around the country as well as in Dubai, Australia and UK, and hope to release a few singles this year. Malika also loves dancing (she’s trained in ballet, jazz).
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