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: Before her full Bollywood crossover, she made minor mainstream appearances, such as working as a red carpet reporter for in 2005 and having a cameo in the film The Girl Next Door The Crossover: Bigg Boss 5 and Bollywood

Sunny Leone’s trajectory from a Canadian-born child of Sikh immigrants to a mainstream Bollywood celebrity is unprecedented in Indian popular culture. Her “past”—a euphemism frequently used in Indian media to refer to her work in adult films—has been a central, contested element of her public identity. Rather than attempting to erase or deny this history, Leone and her management team strategically navigated it. This paper asks: How has Sunny Leone’s past been constructed, contested, and commodified by media, audiences, and the star herself? Sunny Leone Past