{"id":9723,"date":"2011-07-21T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:07:28","slug":"Freida-Pinto-to-take-DNA-test-to-determine-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9723","title":{"rendered":"Freida Pinto to take DNA test to determine ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress <strong>Freida Pinto <\/strong>is keen to take a DNA test to determine her family history.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Slumdog Millionaire star was born in Mumbai, India<\/strong> but she is constantly mistaken for other ethnicities while travelling internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She tells Interview magazine<\/strong>, &#8220;The Portuguese people love to claim me as one of their own, and I don&#8217;t like that! When I was in Istanbul for vacation recently, this large group of women came up to me&#8230; saying, &#8216;Did you know your last name is actually very Portuguese?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>the star is eager to put the issue to rest by taking a lineage test to learn about her actual ancestral heritage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She adds, &#8220;I also came from Mangalore, which is in the southern part of India, where you have a big Catholic population. Some of them were forced conversions by the British and Portuguese. So I may not necessarily have that kind of lineage. I could pretty much be a Hindu from India&#8230; I&#8217;m going to do the Dna testing because I&#8217;m very curious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source contactmusic.com<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Freida Pinto is keen to take a DNA test to determine her family history. 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