At 24 years old, Bhasha Mukherjee is a junior doctor, holds two medical degrees, speaks five languages, and was crowned Miss England 2019.
At 24 years old, Bhasha Mukherjee is a junior doctor for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, holds two medical degrees, speaks five languages, and was crowned Miss England 2019. She is, to say the least, extraordinary. And recently, she hasfor hanging up her crown to return to work as a doctor on the coronavirus front lines.
I sat down, virtually of course, with Mukherjee to learn more about her remarkable story, and to hear her perspective on breaking conventional beauty stereotypes. ALLURE: I would love to ask about the big decision to hang up your crown and return to medicine, to work on the front lines of this pandemic.I was almost at the end of my India tour and my next point of call was Pakistan. Stricter rules for public gatherings were starting to get enforced, so I was starting to feel like it was time for me to return [to the hospital].
A: There’s a lot of excitement about you being both Miss England and a doctor—do you find that people challenge that narrative, especially when it comes to thinking intellect and beauty can’t coexist?This is something I have been trying to fight my whole life. When I was at school, I was always stuck in my books. I got my glasses when I was 10 years old. I had wonky teeth, the whole puberty thing. I felt like no boys liked me because I was a geek.
A: You were in your final year of med school when you were crowned Miss England. What inspired you to enter the pageant knowing your career was just around the corner?One of the magazines I had been modeling for suggested it to me and I thought, "Why not?" I had that approach with everything in life — why not try it out? I had no expectation to win.” Do you think it does?In nature, beauty serves a purpose.
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