Candice Pinto is an Indian beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Tourism International 2002.
She attended Holy Cross High School in the Mumbai suburb of Kurla; and later graduated from South Indian Education Society (SIES) College in Sion, Mumbai, where she was awarded a Master's degree in Economics.
Even though her family did not want her to pursue modelling initially, they helped her enter the Gladrags contest.
[5] At 19, Pinto won her first beauty pageant, the seventh GladRags Mega Model contest held in March 2000.
The following year, she became the first Indian to be crowned Miss Tourism International in Malaysia.