Deanne Pandey

Deanne Panday is an Indian author, fitness expert and former model. She was born on 10th December 1968 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to Alisham and Queenie Woodham. After pursuing a four-month fitness course from Australia, she became a fitness expert, providing personal training to several renowned celebrities, including Bipasha Basu, Jacqueline Fernandez, Dino Morea and John Abraham. She modeled for numerous fashion magazines as well and has often featured on the cover page of Femina. In 1994, she played the lead actress in the short comedy film “Aage Aage Ladki” along with rapper, Baba Sehgal.

The same year she got hitched to the businessman, Chikki Panday, brother of actor, Chunkey Panday. The couple has a daughter, Alanna, and a son, Ahaan, both of whom are models. After bidding adieu to her career as a trainer, Deanne authored her first holistic lifestyle novel “I’m Not Stressed,” published by Random House, which was followed by “Shut Up and Train!” She later collaborated with Bipasha Basu in Basu’s fitness DVD “Unleash.” She is also a recipient of the Elle Fitness Expert Award. Even in her fifties, Deanne is as healthy as ever and follows a strict vegan diet that comprises mostly of plant and organic nutrition.

Panday Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)