Vida Samdazai in Bigg Boss 5 Miss Afghanistan Photo Images Pictures Video

Vida Samdazai is one of the contestants on Colors' Bigg Boss 5 produced by Endemol India. Vida is a former winner of the Miss Afghanistan beauty contest. She was the second Miss Afghanistan to take part in a beauty contest since Zohra Daud was crowned Miss Afghanistan in 1974. Her participation in the Miss Earth beauty pageant in 2003 was condemned by the Afghan Supreme Court, saying such a display of the female body goes against Islamic law and Afghan culture. In particular, traditionalists objected to her appearance in a red bikini during the pageant's press presentation. She was given a special "Beauty for a Cause" award at that year's Miss Earth competition.

Samadzai, an ethnic pashton was born and raised in khost province, Afghanistan, and moved to the U.S. in 1996. She is a student at California State University, Fullerton and has a double major in Advertising and Speech Communications. She speaks five languages fluently and is involved with helping the Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Her life ambition is to work for the United Nations and be a leader and helper for Afghan women whose rights were suppressed for over a decade.