Poonam Pandey, born 11 March 1991, is an Indian model and a self-proclaimed cricket fan.
Poonam Pandey is the Kingfisher Calendar girl for year 2011.
when she offered to strip naked in front of the stadium crowd if India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup. A complaint of obscenity was lodged against her at Kotwali Dehat police station on the direction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Balrampur, India. The Bharatiya Janata Party Women's Wing also filed a police complaint against her in Mumbai.
She didn't go through with her offer of stripping citing lack of permission from the Board of Control for Cricket in India. She is quoted in an IANS interview stating that the stripping comment worked for her and helped her in getting famous.
It is reported that she also posted a hoax video on Twitter and Facebook - which she later clarified was from a photo shoot for a magazine.
During the India v/s England series in September 2011, Poonam Pandey gained further media attention when she posted bikini clad photographs on Twitter. She was tweeted that "“The world will see that I lived up to my inspiration. now, I am sure my team will beat England."
Recently, she announced the launch of her own website with a claim that people from all over the world could see her live 24x7. She claims to have this kind of website as one of a kind in India.
She is also quoted as saying that a "bikini is not vulgar".
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