Her mother Aroona used to run a grooming saloon in Santa Cruz, Mumbai and her father, Inderlal Mookhey was a former Managing Director of a clothing company.

[citation needed] In the semifinal round during the grand finale, she was asked a question by judge Viv Richards - "How do you define a true sports person?

", to which she answered: "I would define a true sports person as the one who welcomes defeat as well as success with a healthy attitude and with a smile.

The calm that she had inside her reflected.”[12] At the end of the event, Mookhey was crowned as Miss World 1999 by her predecessor Linor Abargil from Israel.

[15] Mookhey became the fourth woman from India to win Miss World after Reita Faria in 1966, Aishwarya Rai in 1994 and Diana Hayden in 1997.

[20] She partnered with an NGO to guide young girls from the slums, nudging them towards self-contemplation, understanding their needs and help them to become aware of their bodies, through counseling.

She expressed - “I have spent my time learning the Indian sign language because I feel that hearing impaired people have so much latent creativity and are hampered only by their inability to communicate.

I would like to help them by drawing attention to this issue.”[23] Mookhey is an environmental activist, and has participated in various clean drives and social movements to prevent deforestation.

[24] In 2018, she joined a campaign to prevent illegal tree cutting taking place at the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, to pave way for road and metro constructions.

[26] She supports the Swachh Kalyani Nagar initiative in Pune, and had campaigned the households to process their waste effectively through segregation and recycling, ensuring minimum to zero garbage generation from individual societies.

[21] On 7 September 2008, Mookhey got engaged to Prince Tuli, a New York-based businessman and financial consultant at a ceremony held at the Grand Maratha in Mumbai.