Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961 ; her father , Major Mahinder Singh Kadian , was an officer in the Indian Army . She attended the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls ' Public School in Jaipur then transferred to the Lady Sri Ram College in Delhi to study literature . She won the Miss India crown in 1982 and represented India in the Miss Universe pageant the same year . She subsequently moved to Europe , where she met and married Henri Bordes . Pamela Singh studied at Parsons School of Design in New York , US , the American University of Paris , France and the International Center of Photography , New York , US . She took to photography as her career in 1997 , and began pursuing photojournalism upon moving back to India where she was living in Goa in 2010
Miss Universe
Miss Universe 1982
Pamella Bordes