- Aishwarya Rai was a gifted student and regularly scored more than 90%.
- She took five years of training in classical dance and music as a teenager.
- Aishwarya Rai is the only actress to appear in commercials for both Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
- In 2004, she founded the Aishwarya Rai Foundation to help needy people across India.
- Aishwarya commercialized her first ad for Camlin pencils when she was in ninth grade.
- Aishwarya was suffering from ear bleeding due to heavy earrings while composing the song “Dola Re Dola” from Devdas (2002).
- Following the success of Devdas (2002), Mattel released a limited edition of ‘Aishwarya Rai Barbie dolls’ in the United Kingdom.
- In 2004, Aishwarya became the first Indian actress to place her wax statue at the Madame Tussauds Museum in London.
- Aishwarya Rai was crowned Miss Indian in 1994 as well as Miss World.
- She was the first Indian to see the Oprah Winfrey show for the first time.
- In 1991, she appeared in the US edition of Vogue magazine.
- Aishwarya has promised to donate eyes to the Eye Bank Association of India after her death.
- Her daughter Aradhya is known as Betty B.
- She is a good friend of Twinkle Khanna and Preity Zinta.
