The 19 years old Femina Miss India World 2018 Anukreethy Vas, who works for transgenders' education, believes that a smile keeps everyone going. She had learned this from her mother who brought her up single-handedly. The newly-crowned feels that being raised by a single mother was challenging. The young and talented lady calls herself a tomboy and loves to ride bikes.
"The challenges were there forever starting from school because I am not from a city-based place. I studied at Trichy (Tiruchirappalli), which is not really a city but I was strong enough because my mother didn't let me down at any point. She used to say, 'You are a strong person. How can you cry?' and that's how she brought me up," said Anukreethy. "I have never seen her low. She has a lot of problems herself but she never showed that to me and that is how I was brought up.”
Anukreethy is currently pursuing Bachelor of Arts in French at Chennai's Loyola College. The prestigious beauty pageant Femina Miss India World 2017 Manushi Chhillar crowned Anukreethy at the gala, where Meenakshi Chaudhary from Haryana became the first runner-up and second runner-up was Shreya Rao from Andhra Pradesh.
