Piyali Toshniwal, Bengali by birth, global by nature, is an entrepreneur, a pageant coach, social activist and a Body positivity model. Surely a bundle of talent!
After getting her MBA in Finance, she started her own businesses with limited investments. Since a very tender age, Piyali was keen about fashion and beauty, never got a chance to showcase her interests in modeling, her journey began when she took part in city level Pageant, as fate would have it, she won it even though being plus size due to her confidence and talent, after that there was no looking back. With immense hardwork and consistent efforts she was awarded with honorable titles such as “Mrs. India Universe 2019 ’ ‘Mrs Universe Asia 2019‘ and ‘Mrs Goodwill World 2022’, and many more. Within 2 years she was having 12 titles and 30 plus awards and 50+ media coverages including Bombay Times featuring her for her body positivity inspo. Her perseverence then became noticable to brands and later, started she started getting offers for brand campaigns too. While she realised that Pagent coaching is necessary for the upcoming models and a need which is not available in her area that much, Piyali then started with her pageant grooming academy. She is well-known for the personality development training she provides and transforms one’s life. Out of her many achievements, the significant ones are that she is featured on the many Cover pages of national magazines. And also covered in stories alongside Bollywood stars in Lifestyle UK based international magazine.
Having achieved so much in life, we always see the picture but not the work in attaining that perfect picture. Piyali has her fair shares of challenges to face. She had to face lot of criticism for making her own chioce for business but not doing 9 to 5 job after being a golden medalist BE graduate and MBA Finance.
Piyali also happens to be an Instagram content creator with massive followers of 306K. Her page is all about fashion, beauty, body positivity , travel and lifestyle content. She is committed to her passion. She has promoted over 300 brands on Instagram, which includes top-notch brands like Clovia, MCaffeine, Myglamm, Lakme, Lotus, Amazon, Zee5, Sony, Colors, Zeetv, Snapdeal , Flipkart, Everteen, Swarovski, Nykaa, Disney Hotstar, TataCliq, MamaEarth, Dot & Key etc.
Today’s youth, where everyone claims to be a fashion freak, we need such genuine creators like Piyali Toshniwal, who can guide us correctly towards staying positive about your own body, be inclusive for yourself and lead a healthy lifestyle. With such real and reliable content, we see her holding the potential of becoming one of India’s top content creators and trending plus size fashionista. Her page on instagram @piyalitoshniwal_official is a 10/10 recommended to follow on gram for plus size inspiration.
