She cuts a striking figure in her pale blue babydoll dress, her chocolate-brown hair cascading down her back as she cuddles her beloved dog on her lap.
But there’s a definite sadness in her eyes and a weariness in her voice these days as she says, “I feel like such a failure.”
Shashi Naidoo, one of South Africa’s top models, is going through a difficult time.
A few months ago she was named men’s magazine FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World and she then spoke of wanting to be a mother one day and how much her husband meant to her.
Now her marriage is over and she’s taking it badly.
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