Aishwarya Rai at a recent watch promotion event revealed that she was the original choice for Barbie Makers and not Katrina Kaif.
During the press conference when Aishwarya was asked by the media, how she felt about Katrina’s Barbies hitting the market in first week of December, Aishwarya immediately replied that she was the original choice for Barbie.

Aishwarya said,”I was asked by that brand (Barbie), not just now but, I think, since Miss World, then at the turn of millennium, then when my films were raging success after Canes andthis year was the fourth time actually that I was requested by Barbie to walk the ramp on a particular day.”
“But I was a committed professional working with Vipul Shah and he needed my date on that day so I was unable to accept that offer to walk the ramp that particular day for them.”