From debuting in highly successful Bollywood film Bazzigar to status of international celebrity Indian actress Shilpa Shetty has travelled a long distance. From then on the actress has acted in over 40 films.

From debuting in highly successful Bollywood film Bazzigar to status of international celebrity Indian actress Shilpa Shetty has travelled a long distance. From then on the actress has acted in over 40 films. During her nearly two decades long journey she has gone through various ups and downs but has bounced back every time. She has a rare knack to transform every crisis into opportunity and she has done it so many times. So it is very common to find latest new of Shilpa Shetty in latest newspapers. But all was not well for the actress who made debut opposite Shahrukh Khan.

After doing some not so worth remembering films she returned on the track with moderately successful films like Dhadkan and Rishtey. All these things made latest news about Shilpa Shetty very common.

But destiny had big things for Shilpa in store. In the year 2007 she emerged as the winner of British Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show and she became an international overnight sensation with this success. And all the leading media of the world wrote news about Shilpa Shetty.

Shilpa Shetty was born in conventional family in Mangalore. Her parents are Surendra and Sunanda Shetty. The young Shetty did her schooling in Mumbai and even participated in sports. The actress is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer.

Her sister Shamita Shetty is also a popular Bollywood actress.

Shilpa Shetty is married to Raj Kundra.