Did Rayya Labib win the Ms Bikini Asia-Pacific title in 2015?

MUMBAI: What most people do not know about Rayya Labib is that she is the winner of the Ms Bikini Asia-Pacific title in a special category in the year 2015. Yes, you heard it right, Rayya won the title after initially being declared as the first runner-up. Later on, a week later, she was declared the winner as the original winner was disqualified on a technical issue.

Who is Rayya Labib?

Rayya Labib hails from Nalbari, Assam where she was born on 11th February 1996. After finishing her schooling, she went to Guhahati for higher education and also came to Mumbai for modeling and acting assignments now and then.

She completed her schooling and college in Assam with her schooling in Nalbari where she was very active in cultural activities and also did modeling and ramp shows in nearby towns.

After completing her education, she moved to Mumbai permanently where she is now based, but often travels to Assam to meet her family.

In Mumbai, she started with print shoots and smaller modeling assignments doing various campaigns and even episodic roles in serials like CID, Crime Patrol and the like.

She acted in Sanjay Khandelwal’s venture Lakme and worked with director Maneesh F Singh in the festival film Green Terror, which was partly shot in Pakistan.

Rayya is 26 years of age and is currently single. Her hobbies include listing to music, watching movies and sports.

In the year 2014, she participated in the Ms Bikini Asia pageant and was selected among the Top 5. Later on, she went on to win the Ms Bikini Asia-Pacific title a year later in 2015 in a special category and was ranked the first runner up winner. She would have made it to the first spot, but her height was a handicap and she was placed as the first runner up in the international pageant. But a week later, as fate would have it, the original winner was disqualified on technical grounds and the first runner-up was declared the winner.

She is also active on the social work scenario and conducts fund-raising drives for street children.