Bela Bajaria

Okay, okay.

So for anybody who's looking, you're not going to find it.

The Indian culture thing, that's just not the vibe.

But it really turned out to be an incredible experience.

Yeah.

It's tricky with all the stigma of what a pageant means or could represent and all that.

But for me in the community and what it taught me and really had me sort of embrace fully who I was at 20.

Such a gift.

Yeah.

It was amazing.

You dug deep in the vault.

A little bit.

A little bit.

Yeah.

The pageant is not easily accessible.

community and family and all those aunts and uncles and grandparents that raised me and my parents, like I had this really strong sense of,

Really this, well, it was interesting because I had this Indian community and my family and that foundation, a strong foundation of like my kids and my husband, but this larger Indian community that when you can kind of really feel loved and taken care of and have that kind of real center, like it just right back to the core to get back to the center, which I did some work on like, oh, let's just take out all the dullness into the noise and get back to the core of the center.

Right.

Which again I think allowed me to go okay what do I want to do next and not listen to any of the noise.

I think that was really helpful and I really did have this strong community in Hollywood and these