Pratima Yarlagadda
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Pratima Yarlagadda born on October, 6 1976, was Miss Indiana USA
Miss Indiana USA
The Miss Indiana USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Indiana in the Miss USA pageant.Nine Miss Indiana USA winners previously competed at Miss Teen USA. The state currently holds the record for the most Miss Teen USA state winners to win a Miss USA...

 (1998) and semi-finalist in Miss USA 1999
Miss USA 1999
Miss USA 1999, the forty-eighth Miss USA pageant, was held at the Grande Palace Theatre in Branson, Missouri on February 4, 1999.At the conclusion of the final competition, Kimberly Pressler of New York, was crowned by outgoing titleholder Shawnae Jebbia of Massachusetts...

 contest. Pratima, the second child of Mrs. Olga and Dr. Subbarao Yarlagadda of Shipshewana, Indiana, is the first Indian American to reach the top-ten level in the run to this coveted title.

After moving to New York
New York
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 City Pratima signed with Ford Models
Ford Models
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. Her work has been featured in such publications as Vogue Italia
Vogue Italia
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, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
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, Glamour
Glamour (magazine)
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, and Town and Country
Town and Country
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among others.

Pratima currently resides in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 where she is represented by Ford Models, Innovative Artists, and JKA. Her film and TV credits include appearances in How To Seduce Difficult Women, My Brother, Beautiful, and All My Children
All My Children
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...

.

She is also known as Pratima Anae.

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