While growing up, I have had women around me, be it my mother or aunt, who have individually shown me how to be strong.

My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through medical school, sent my uncle to America where he wanted to work and helped my aunt become an accountant, because that's what she wanted to do.

My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.

There is always a new experience on every set, a new mistake you make. It is a learning experience.

I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family.

It's important to make your social life and your friends and family - make that a priority.

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.