5 interesting facts about Sonakshi Sinha

1. Before joining Bollywood Sonakshi Sinha was a fashion designing student. She worked as a costume designer for the film called Mere Dil Leke Dekho in the year 2005. She still designs for her parents. And she would love to come up with her own fashion range very soon. She even walked on the ramp for Lakme Fashion Week in the year 2008 and 2009.

2. Sonakshi was not interested in acting and it was Salman Khan who motivated her to join Bollywood and leave the fashion designing. But as she was a bit overweight she had to undergo rigorous training like swimming, gymming, yoga etc to get slim and has lost around 30 Kg. Again to do that she was motivated by her mentor Salman Khan.

3. So after the success of Dabangg, she donated her signing amount to Salman Khan’s charitable organisation Being Human. And very few know that it was Sonakshi who insisted Salman Khan to sport a moustache for the film Dabangg. And Sonakshi is a painter in real life. When she is free she loves drawing sketches.

4. She loved wearing traditional Indian sarees even when she was a small kid. Sonakshi is quite passionate about sketching. She loves to draw in her free time and her favourite styles of music include Bollywood, Rock, Acid Jazz, House and Hip Hop.

5. Sonakshi always carries a pair of extra clothes because she is paranoid about having a wardrobe malfunction. And she is an absolute foodie and she mentioned her favourite cuisines are Thai and Indian. She also doesn’t mind bingeing on junk food once in a while.