Pooja Bedi was born in Bombay, India to a noted Indian classical danseuse, the late Protima and an international film star, Kabir Bedi. She was brought up in a very unconventional way and was literally allowed to have her own way. She loves water sports.

In 1997 her brother Siddharth tragically committed suicide at the age of 26. The following year there was another tragedy for her family when her mother Protima was killed in a landslide while on a pilgrimage in the Himalayas.

She received her basic education at the acclaimed Lawrence School, Sanawar, where she spent quite a few years.

On May 13, 2000 she interviewed Amitabh Bachchan for the Amul India Show, an interview which offended the Big B so much so that he threatened to walk out of the Kaun Banega Crorepati if the interview was ever aired “She had asked the big B why was his hair always black and his beard white, this was an obvious question many wanted to ask but she did so but this question offended BIG B a lot and he threatened to walk out of the show and also directed the producer to cut it, she was also given a KILL YOU look by BIG B. As a result it was cancelled, Pooja was blamed for not conducting the interview properly, which Pooja denies, and she wrote a letter to Mr. Bachchan inter alia referring to him as ‘Big B = Big Baby and Big Bully”, and of finding him grumpy, inarticulate, defensive, even though she did not question about the failure of ABCL nor of his involvement in BOFORS. Amitabh knew that POOJA was a eye witness in the lokhandwala shootout but he denied an offer to Pooja from the producers to act in the movie “SHOOTOUT AT LOKHANDWALA and told them to take Rakhi sawant instead.