Miss World 1994, who also won "Miss Photogenic" award and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty - Asia and Oceania at the same pageant, after being first-runner up at Miss India contest alongside winning five other sub-titles, including "Miss Catwalk", "Miss Miraculous", "Miss Photogenic", "Miss Perfect Ten" and "Miss Popular" in the same event.
The highest-ranked Indian actor, who has received 10 Filmfare Awards nominations, and has won two Best Actress trophies for Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), honoured by the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, by the Government of India for her contributions to the arts and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a national order of France.
The first Indian ever to be invited on globally popular Oprah Winfrey's show, that too twice, the first female Bollywood actor to be acknowledged with a wax statue at London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
The first Indian actress to be on the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival.
She was chosen as "the most attractive woman of 2003" by UK's Hello! magazine, by TIME magazine as one of the world's most influential people, and appeared on the cover of its 2003 Asia edition, and likewise, innumerous times she has been recognized as the most beautiful woman in the world.
She pledged to donate her eyes to the Eye Bank Association of India and appeared in a public awareness film on eye donation. She created the Aishwarya Rai Foundation to help needy people in India and was appointed as the first Goodwill Ambassador of Smile Train, an international charity that provides free Cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need.She was also appointed as the new international Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on AIDS and HIV.
Even after such a magnificent fame and drop-dead looks she has, she is a person who is grounded by family and morality values. She is married and has a daughter, and despite being at peak of her stardom, she chose to stay home for well-being and health of her baby daughter. If she wanted, no one would have stopped her, but she did as she understands and implements the meaning of "Family-first-always". Even for this, she didn't enroll into fitness session which could have made her back in shape in few months, just for her daughter. She is an international star but cooks food on her own.
Besides being so gorgeous, she was an intelligent student too who wanted to pursue being architect, but destiny played its own role.
And I have seen a video where she was delivering speech at her daughter's school function, and who even people like us would thank all the teachers by their names each, including the ones at backstage, whose name tag you cannot read? But she did, she thanked each of them, this shows what kind of person she is.
So, still now if there is the question of what is so special about her? I would say, I have never met an intelligent and mesmerizingly beautiful woman without arrogance, as I have yet not met Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
