Mrs. UAE International recounts her winning journey in Dubai

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UAE-based Indian expat Charul Chaturvdei Jaitly is on cloud nine after recently winning the title of ‘Mrs UAE International’ in December 2021 in Dubai.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3qrsrue  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #beautypageant #Indian

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00:00And here is my beautiful beautiful crown. Super proud to have won it and I hope to

00:07do all the justice to it. And here it is for all of you all.

00:14We've all heard never judge a book by its cover or you know there is a

00:18backstory to everything. There is so much more to a person than meets the eye and

00:23the reason I'm talking to you today is to share the backstory a little bit and

00:27hope to be a reason for inspiration and motivation for anybody who wanted to

00:33listen to this. So it was not too long back. Actually it was in September when I

00:41was diagnosed. Actually I will not use the word diagnosed. Suspected of

00:46ovarian cancer. It was it was a shock. It was it was like everything came to a

00:54standstill. I thought my life was over. But of course like with everything else

01:01there was there was so much more that I was to experience and go through. I'm an

01:09Indian origin living in Dubai for for last 17 years. Long time yeah who was

01:16counting. So the next thing we knew me and my husband were booking our flights

01:20and rushing back to Mumbai. That's where my family lives to figure out how to

01:26handle this curveball that the life has now thrown at us. I remember running

01:33packing getting to Mumbai you know running around for various scans and

01:39tests and everything else. A surgery was imperative and that happened. It happened

01:46almost end of September. It was an eight hour long surgery and the reports that

01:53were leading up to the surgery were not very promising. But I'm sitting here in

01:57front of you and I'm very very happy to inform all you listeners that thankfully

02:03there was no cancer. I was cancer free but whatever had to be taken care of in

02:10terms of my surgery was done. My life was saved and I think I have many more

02:18beautiful years ahead of me. The recovery was very long because of the

02:24criticalness of the surgery. I had to be under observation for almost two months.

02:28A trip to India which was for for five days and seven days max lasted over a

02:35month. So yes our our business took a toll. Our life was thrown out of the

02:42curve. Everything was out of the spanner and to be honest there were days when I

02:49thought this is it. Time to say grace and you know do my last prayers and you know

02:57like with everything else there's always always a silver lining to every dark

03:01cloud. I totally completely absolutely believe in it and that silver lining for

03:09me was the persistent calls for this pageant. I have to I have to admit there

03:16were days when I thought I'll not be able to you know take a long walk at a

03:22stretch for for a few months. I was asked not to you know walk or jog, forget about

03:30running, cycling, swimming, the things that I like to do, yoga which which really

03:35defines the person I am. I was abstained from doing all of that but you know

03:41there was a day when I was I was almost getting into the victim mode where I was

03:48like God why me and why I have to go through so much in my life and my family

03:56was in a state of shock and it did not look very very promising and you know

04:04just in that moment there was a switch that happened and I I just came to terms

04:12with it in a way that I have been a girl who has grabbed a bull by the horn. I

04:17have overcome so many challenges in life and I knew that if I was to give in now

04:24then it will be very difficult for me to surface and at that moment I decided

04:30no matter what I will come out of this positive. I will come out of this as a

04:37winner and with all those emotions and all those thoughts in my head and

04:47absolutely unwavering support of my husband Vikrant and my family back home

04:54in India I decided to take the plunge and I signed up for for this pageant and

04:59to be honest not only did I participate I ended up winning it so you know and

05:06there were many reasons for me to believe or kind of take it for granted

05:10that I had no scope in this pageant because all the other participants were

05:14in the pageant for for last four months getting groomed and there were photo

05:18shoots and you know many other things that they together went through and I was

05:22like a wild-card entry and the reason I'm sharing all this with you is just

05:31remember in life you will never fail if you go through everything or anything in

05:36life you either win it or you learn from it so no failing but winning and

05:42learning and if we keep those options open to ourselves then I think life is a

05:47beautiful adventure to explore if you really want to make it big in your life

05:51make it big for yourself and if you really want to be happy be happy from

05:56within and if you win your battles from within believe me your light will shine

06:01and you will be a winner like I am sitting here today feeling like a woman

06:07on top an achiever and a woman who has a crown for herself this is my precious

06:14precious crown so sharing it all with you this is my moment of glory and this

06:21crown will always remind me of all that I I endured all that I overcome I have

06:31overcome in my life and it will remind me of my grit my determination my

06:35resilience

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