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Femina Miss India Chhattisgarh 2022 Sifat Sehgal's victorious battle with anorexia
Jun 20, 2022, 04.24 PM IST
Sifat Sehgal is a 22-year-old student and model from Chhattisgarh, who aspires to make it big in the industry. But, having a significant chunk of her early life taken over by eating disorders, she has learned to be grateful for her life and body.
She had falciparum at the age of four. While all the kids focused on their emotional and mental development, her body struggled with basic survival. Sifat had spent the first decade of her life in hospitals. She missed school and had no room for a social life. Then, the medications started reacting with her body, and her skin started developing vitiligo, anorexia, and was diagnosed with clinical depression.
The beauty has faced many struggles in every path of life. Unfortunately, her life at home wasn't the most peaceful, so she was sent to a boarding school. When she left home and lived without her parents, she was nine years old. She developed anorexia, in which an abnormally low body weight is characterised by an eating disorder. Speaking about the disease, she said, "I started reading books and writing poetry, but I wasn't a poet, just anorexic. I started painting, but I wasn't a painter; I was still just anorexic. I won a gold medal in the International Math Olympiad, but I was still just my odd-looking body. I shifted to Mumbai six years back and started living on my own. I immersed myself in engineering only to quit it after the very first year. Around this time, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. At 20, I couldn't look forward to waking up the next day. I became numb and indifferent to people around me."
Throughout their life, her work for the underprivileged was the only thing that kept her going. From a very young age, she knew her purpose was to contribute something to the world, especially to the women around her. Code Green is her initiative to help women become financially independent by teaching them how to make organic manure with nothing but kitchen waste and contributing to a greener planet. This, for her, was a start. With ideas to revolutionise the world, she believes the world is as beautiful as you want it to be.
She decided to channelise her depression into something productive. Talking about her cause, she said, "I joined the social work committee in college and started my work after graduation where my mom and I taught underprivileged women to make organic manure at home with nothing but kitchen waste, with an aim to help them be financially independent."
Helping others helped her, now, it's been a year since she has overcome her eating disorders and depression. According to her, "I've learnt something; it's that you need to know to be happy with yourself. You're unstoppable as long as you can make peace with your mind. As a result, my long-term emotions/feelings are independent of external factors. Don't get me wrong; I allow myself to feel every emotion to the fullest, whether positive or negative, but I don't carry anything with myself, so I'm free of any baggage."
She is happy-go-lucky, joyous and full of energy every day because she chooses to be. When you're a child, you dream of things that align with your identity. Sifat dreamt of just two things: modelling and bringing a change in the world. So the beauty gathered the courage to participate in the national contest of VLCC presents Femina Miss India 2022 co-powered by Sephora, Moj & Rajnigandha Pearls, and plans to use this platform for a better tomorrow and aspires to be a role model for both generations, old and young, with her zeal and passion.
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