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As a child Jacqueline Fernandez dreamt of being a Hollywood actress Though Jacqueline Fernandez confessed that she was naïve and did not knew what she will do in future but one thing that she was pretty sure was that she wanted to do something glamorous and dreamt of becoming a Hollywood actress. In her passion to become a Hollywood actress she watched many Hollywood movies but as she grew she realized that Hollywood is a distance dream. As she was interested in exploring her beautiful figure and dreamt of a glamorous career she began her journey with TV and started to host television shows in Bahrain at the age of fourteen. Later she did her graduation in Mass Communication from the University of Sydney in Australia and started working as a television reporter in Sri Lanka After winning the Miss Universe Sri Lanka pageant her dreams took shape When Jacqueline Fernandez was working as TV reporter for Sri Lanka, she was simultaneously also doing modeling assignments to grab attention of film world. However her luck changed when she was crowned the winner of the Miss Universe Sri Lanka pageant in 2006 held in Los Angeles. She started getting more modeling assignments and in 2009 she landed in Mumbai for a modeling assignment when she got her first film Aladin, opposite none other than the superstar of Millennium Amitabh Bachchan!

Jacqueline Fernandez and her multiple relationship Jacqueline Fernandez in an interview confessed she had her first crush when she was in class II at school. After she turned teenaged she has been in news for her clandestine affair since she joined the glamour world. Among her very first boy friend is her early day’s friend, New York-based model-actor, Adam Caldera, with whom she started ramp walking. Later in 2008 she hit headlines for her romance with Bahraini prince Hassan bin Rashid Al Khalifa. She separated with him in 2011. In 2011 filmmaker Sajid Khan fell in love with her during the shooting of Housefull 2. This was a serious relation and Sajid Khan even met her parents and they were to get married after three years of dating but Jacqueline Fernandez broke the relation as Sajid Khan was too possessive of her. Amidst these relations she was also rumored to have links with Salman Khan and Arjun Kapoor! But Jacqueline Fernandez declines all relation and is happy to be single.

Jacqueline Fernandez was disappointed by Aladin audition There were hundreds of girls who had auditioned for Aladin. Hence Jacqueline Fernandez was a bit nervous. Recalling her first audition she said, “Film director Sanjay Ghosh advised me not to much focus on the character but try to be as natural as possible. I had been asked to talk about my happy and sad movement of life but I messed with my lines and giggled. I felt it was my worst audition.” But to her delight the same evening she received a call that she has been finalized as the heroine of the film. She said, “May be I was selected because while narrating my sad movement of life I was carried away as I recalled my life’s bitter phase and tears swelled in my eyes.” Jacqueline Fernandez had turned down Murder 2 as she was frustrated with failures in Bollywood Though Jacqueline Fernandez got a dream debut in Aladin and also fetched IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year and Stardust Awards - Best Female Debut but the film was a box-office disaster. Her second film Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai opposite Riteish Deshmukh was a super-duper flop despite special appearances by top Bollywood stars like Akshay Kumar, Farah Khan, Karan Johar, Priyanka Chopra etc. The film critics too criticized Jacqueline Fernandez badly. Frustrated she decided to go back to Sri Lanka and focus on other career option. When she was above to depart India she received a call from Mahesh Bhatt films and was offered Murder 2. But she was disheartened by flops and film critic’s taunts hence she had declined to do the film. But Mahesh Bhatt cajoled her and convinced her about her success. He tactfully entices Jacqueline Fernandez narrating the story of Mallika Sherawat, how her career had gone into oblivion with a series of flop films like Jeena Sirf Merre Liye, Khwahish, Kis Kis Ki Kismat but with Murder (2004) , Bhatt films gave her a new lease of life and made her an International star! Jacqueline Fernandez trusted Mahesh Bhatt and Bhatt films’ Murder 2 lived up to its promise and made Jacqueline Fernandez a star! Jacqueline Fernandez signed Housefull 2 as it gave her opportunity to exploit her comedy sense When Jacqueline Fernandez was doing Aladin, she met famous filmmaker Sajid Khan, who was impressed by her gorgeous figure hence too woo her he offered her an item number in his film Housefull (2010). The song Aapka Kya Hoga Dhanno … became a national craze. The success of the song encouraged film producer Sajid Nadiadwala to cast Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead role in Housefull 2. Though Jacqueline Fernandez was getting many offers after Aladin but she rejected many as most were repetition of Murder 2 and Jacqueline Fernandez did not wanted to get trapped in a particular image. However when Sajid Nadiadwala offered her Housefull 2, she was excited as it gave her new opportunity to tap her comedy sense. Recalling how she was left astounded when Sajid Nadiadwala called her to sign for Housefull 2 she said, “While I was doing Aladin at Kolkatta with Sanjay Ghosh, I received a call from Sajid Nadiadwala that he plans to sign me for his forthcoming film Housefull 2. I was flabbergasted and could not believe to be on the plane of top stars like Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Riteish Deshmukh, Asin Thottumkal, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and others.” After comedy Jacqueline Fernandez stunned audience with negative role in Race 2 Before joining Bollywood Jaqueline had studied acting under Acting Guru and theatre legend Barry John, who trained ShahRukh Khan. Hence she wanted to prove that she is not just a glamour doll but is a bundle of talent and this she proved with her next film, Race 2 in which she played a dark negative character with panache. She did stunning stunts and even learnt horse riding for the film. The movie was a hit and made critics to take notice of her histrionics. After Kick Jacqueline Fernandez became a star to reckon After Kick Jacqueline Fernandez was flooded with offers but she wisely selected her roles caring little if it’s a mother role as in Brothers opposite Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra. In 2016 she gave a series of commercial successful films like Housefull 3, Dishoom. She is presently engaged shooting Chandran Rutnam's English-Sri Lankan crime-thriller ‘According to Mathew’; She is doing another thriller Reloaded with Siddharth Malhotra and is signed by Sajid Nadiadwala’s Judwaa 2 opposite Varun Dhawan and Taapsee Pannu, a sequel to the 1997 comedy film Judwaa, staring Salman Khan.