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🎬Teen Summit Host Ananda Lewis Transformation
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Ananda Lewis (born March 21, 1973) is an American television host, carpenter, former model, and social activist. She was an MTV veejay, Teen Summit from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own broadcast syndicated television talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show. She was a correspondent for The Insider from 2004 to 2005. She then became a carpenter. She hosted the 2019 revival of While You Were Out on TLC.
Lewis was born in Los Angeles. She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically of the Creek and Blackfoot tribes. Her first name means "bliss" in Sanskrit. Lewis's mother worked as an account manager for Pacific Bell and her father as a computer-animation specialist. Her sister, Lakshmi, is a physician. Lewis's parents divorced when Ananda was two years old, and her mother moved with her daughters to San Diego, California, to be near her own mother.
Lewis struggled with a speech impediment, stuttering until she was eight years old. In grade school, she earned a reputation for outspokenness. In 1981, Lewis entered herself in the Little Miss San Diego Contest, a beauty pageant, and won. During the talent portion of the competition, Lewis performed a dance routine, which she had choreographed herself to Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney's ballad "Ebony and Ivory." After her win, Lewis attracted the attention of a talent agent and began working in local theater productions and on television.
While a student at Howard University in 1993, Lewis was featured prominently in the hit R&B video by fellow HU alumni Shai, "Baby, I'm Yours," filmed on campus. She portrayed the love interest of vocalist Carl "Groove" Martin.
Lewis was born in Los Angeles. She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically of the Creek and Blackfoot tribes. Her first name means "bliss" in Sanskrit. Lewis's mother worked as an account manager for Pacific Bell and her father as a computer-animation specialist. Her sister, Lakshmi, is a physician. Lewis's parents divorced when Ananda was two years old, and her mother moved with her daughters to San Diego, California, to be near her own mother.
Lewis struggled with a speech impediment, stuttering until she was eight years old. In grade school, she earned a reputation for outspokenness. In 1981, Lewis entered herself in the Little Miss San Diego Contest, a beauty pageant, and won. During the talent portion of the competition, Lewis performed a dance routine, which she had choreographed herself to Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney's ballad "Ebony and Ivory." After her win, Lewis attracted the attention of a talent agent and began working in local theater productions and on television.
While a student at Howard University in 1993, Lewis was featured prominently in the hit R&B video by fellow HU alumni Shai, "Baby, I'm Yours," filmed on campus. She portrayed the love interest of vocalist Carl "Groove" Martin.
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