Anjali Lama bags Vogue’s Model of the Year award

Nepali model, Anjali Lama bagged ‘Model Of The Year’ in Vogue Beauty Awards, held at JW Marriott, Mumbai on Wednesday.

The model took her Instagram to share the award with her followers. She wrote, “It’s a great honor to receive 10th edition of Vogue Beauty award as "Model Of The Year”. This is a further upliftment and motivation for me after so many days of failure and defeat. Thank you so much.”

Earlier in late June, the model bagged ‘Model Of The Year’ in ‘Grazia Millennial Awards 2019’. She also starred in Calvin Klein’s ‘My Statement. #MyCalvins’, it was an advertising campaign done on International Women’s Day.

Anjali came out as transgender in 2005 after she moved to Kathmandu from her village. In 2017, she became the first transgender model to appear at an Indian fashion week event where she walked for Monisha Jaising’s opening show.