11 Interesting facts about Sonia Gandhi you didn't know all these years

That her given name is Antonia Edvige Albina Maino, she was born in Italy and worked as a waitress to support her education, is public knowledge.

But there is more to the woman that led one of the biggest political parties of India for 19 years than what’s written on the newspapers or told by anchors of various channels.

When she is not playing that influential Indian leader, she is just a regular woman with basic proclivities and pastimes. Now that she has retired, here are 11 interesting fact from the other end of Sonia Gandhi’s life that no one shines the torch light on.