Mini Mathur is an Indian model, actor, television professional, author, producer and interior designer. She has also hosted many reality TV shows.
Wiki/Biography
Mini Mathur was born on August 21, 1976 in New Delhi (age 43 as of 2019). She was educated in Delhi Public Schools. Mathur received a degree in English Literature from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi University. Mathur holds a degree in business and marketing management from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. She entered the world of glamor as a VJ. She made her acting debut in 2002 with the film Dil Vil Pyar Vyar. Mathur is famous for hosting various reality shows.
appearance
- Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
- Body measurements (approximately): 34-30-36
family and caste
Mini Mathur was born into a Hindu Kayastha family. Her mother’s name is Veena Mathur.
Mini is married to film director Kabir Khan. The couple has a son Vivaan Khan and a daughter Sairah Kabir.
Profession
Before entering the entertainment industry, Mini worked as an Advertising Professional at J Walter Thompson, New Delhi through IMT Campus Placement. After becoming the spokesperson for “Ray-Ban” sunglasses, she began to receive modeling invitations.
After she became the spokesperson for Ray-Ban, she started her first game show “Tol Mol Ke Bol”.
Mini Mather became a VJ for MTV after hosting many game shows. She is popular for her international concerts, interviews with celebrities, and appearances on youth campuses.
Mini hosts the Indian culture show Bombay Blush, which is broadcast in the UK. Mini Mathur became a household name with the first season of the singing reality show Indian Idol and served as the show’s host for three consecutive seasons (2004-07).
In 2009, Mini hosted the reality show “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao”. After hosting several reality shows, Mathur appeared as a contestant in the second season of the dance reality show “Jhalak Dikhla Ja”.
In 2013, he starred in the movie “I, I Am the Lord”.
In addition to interviews with politicians, industrialists and opinion makers on national television, Mini has appeared in ads for popular brands such as Ultra Doux, L’Oreal and Comfort.
Mini Mathur also hosts and produces the travel show “Mini Me” with her daughter, which airs on TLC India. She went on a 25-day trip to Europe. She visited 15 cities in 7 countries (Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia and Spain) in 25 days.
In 2019, Mini Mathur appeared in Amazon Prime’s web series “Mind The Malhotras”.
dispute
- Mini Mathur has often been attacked on social media for marrying a Muslim, being an “Islamist” and being “Hindu-phobic”. As a social media influencer, Minnie lashes out at all such trolls and believes that “the best way to deal with trolls is to shame them on the platform in fluent English.”
Go to sleep trolls. The day is over. Go sit with your moms and sisters and tell them how you spend your day insulting, slandering and talking about women like them just because you get paid to do so. I hope your conscience has a good time in hell.
— Mini Mathur (@minimathur) April 24, 2018
- Following the release of her web series Mind The Malhotras, she was attacked on social media platforms and asked to consider Botox treatment. Minnie responded: “Thanks…no. I won’t be using Botox. It’s time for the world to accept the fact that women age, but their talents don’t. Thankfully, the dynamic protagonist is Created for women in their 40s. Would you rather have a 20-year-old play a 40-year-old Shefali?”
favorite thing
- Food: Mango sticky rice with coconut milk
- Breakfast: Eggs Benedict with a pot of tea
- Cuisine: Japanese, Thai and Indian
- Restaurants: Indigo, Spice at JW Marriott, Mahesh Lunch Home in Juhu and Karim’s in Delhi
- Chef: Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver
- Movies: Meet Joe Black and Jan B. Do Yarrow
- Song: “Walking in the Sun” by Katrina & The Waves
- Tourist Attractions: The “Soul” of the Himalayas and the “Soul of the Rivers”
- Travel show: Highway on my plate
- Outdoor Activities: Scuba Diving and Kayaking
- Diving destinations: Great Barrier Reef, Dead Sea, Philippines, Maldives, Andaman
- Fragrance: Happy by Clinique and Dreams by Gap
- Pairing: Jeans with white sneakers
- Side of the bed: right side
fact
- “Closet stand-up comedy” is the word she uses to describe herself.
- Minnie’s hobbies include cooking, reading and traveling.
- She is afraid of heights.
- Mini loves scuba diving; she got scuba certified for her honeymoon.
- Once while diving in the Maldives, she ran out of oxygen and even hit her head.
- When she was dating her husband Kabir Khan, he used to send her postcards from all the places he visited. She considered these postcards her most prized possessions.
- Once, while on vacation in China, she ordered chicken soup. As a result, when she finished her meal, she saw a dead chicken with eyes, feathers, and claws.
- Mathur has eaten oysters, snails, fried insects, bugs and bees, but she has never tried snakes, monkeys and rabbits.
- She designed her home herself and incorporated different things from different countries.
- She started participating in the reality show “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao” when her daughter was just six months old“.
- Besides vacationing with her husband, she enjoys traveling with her friends Maria, Sandhya and Jaya.
- The Arctic, Bora Bora, and French Polynesia are all her dream destinations.
- When she took her daughter to Munich to film a travel show, she stayed in a youth hostel in a room so small that only one person’s suitcase could be opened at a time.
- One of her special childhood memories is going to Disneyland in Florida. She had pepperoni pizza and banana splits for the first time. She feels like a member of Riverdale High (made famous by Archie Comics).
- Mini Mathur’s first love was her brother’s best friend in school.
- When she is angry, she yells at people and says unintentional things.
- Mathur wants corrupt, stupid and selfish politicians to be wiped off the face of the earth.
- She doesn’t like puff sleeves and printed jeans.
- Going out to lunch with friends, a day at the spa, Sunday brunch, and hanging out with family at home all reduce her stress.
- Her leisure time includes watching movies with her husband after a long day at work.
- Since she is a graduate in English literature, she reads for 1-2 hours every day.
- Mini Mathur’s father-in-law Rasheeduddin Khan is a writer.
- She loves dogs and has a Siberian husky named Blue Khan.
- The lowest point in her life was when she suffered from postpartum depression.
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