Sejal Kumar is an Indian actress, fashion blogger and YouTuber. She is known for her role in the web series Engineering Girls.
Wiki/Biography
Sejal Kumar was born in New Delhi on Sunday, January 1, 1995 (25 years old in 2020). Her star sign is Capricorn.
She attended Mother’s International School in New Delhi and later joined Shri Ram College of Commerce to pursue a degree in Economics. She was a good student from a young age. Sejal was a basketball player in high school. She also excelled in dancing during college and worked as a professional dancer for two years at “Danceworx”. During college, she participated in various extracurricular activities, including street performances. She had always been interested in performing arts and auditioned for several performances, but failed. When Sejal was 20 years old, she came across the fashion lifestyle videos of 18-year-old Bethany Mota and was impressed by her. In her final year of college, she also started making YouTube videos, editing them and uploading them to her channel. However, at that time, she was not sure whether to become a full-time YouTuber. Slowly, her content started to attract viewers, and at that time, Kumar chose to become a full-time YouTuber and decided to give up her college arrangements.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 7″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: dark brown
Family and caste
Sejal Kumar belongs to a Hindu family.
Parents and siblings
Her father, Anil Kumar, is a retired Major in the Indian Army. Her mother, Anjali Kumar, is a doctor and the head of the gynaecology department at Artemis Hospital in Gurgaon. She has a brother, Rohan Kumar (student).
relation
Sejal is in a relationship with Mohak Popla.
Profession
Sejal Kumar started her career as a YouTuber. She uploaded her first video, “Summer Style Turkey”, during her internship in Turkey. The video received a good response which further motivated her to make such videos. Her videos mainly focus on skits, fashion, dance, lifestyle and music. Later, she appeared in an advertisement for Airtel.
Sejal had appeared in an episode of the web series ‘Sofa So Good’.
She also acted in the short film ‘Azab Bilal Ki Gajab Kahani’.
In 2017, Kumar recorded a video of her trip to Europe and uploaded it in her series ‘Indian Girl Backpacking Europe.’ Next, she acted in the web series ‘Engineering Girls’, ‘FilterCopy Talkies’ and ‘Toxic’.
In the same year, he collaborated with StalkBuyLove to launch his own clothing line and released the original single “Ai Si Heng”.
Awards
- Won the Best Vlog Award at the Cosmopolitan India Blogger Awards (2018)
- Instagram Fashion Account of the Year Award (2018)
- Best Lifestyle Blogger at the Indian Fashion Blogger Awards (2019)
- Best Young Influencer Award at the Iron Women Summit and Awards Ceremony (2019)
- Exhibition Magazine’s Top 5000 Influencer Award (2019)
- Fashion Instagrammer of the Year (2019)
Favorite things
- Food: Mexican, Chinese
- Characters: Ellen DeGeneres, Michelle Penn
- Movies: Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), Rang De Basnti (2006)
- Books: Harry Potter series
- TV shows: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl
- YouTubers: SabsBeauty, Sherry, Bethany Mota, Sierra Furtado, Zoella, LaurDIY, Brad & Hailey Devine, Desi Perkins
- Sports: Hiking, basketball
- Style Icons: Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner
- Restaurants: Burma Burma in Gurgaon
Facts/Trivia
- Her hobbies include dancing, singing and playing the ukulele.
- While in college, Sejal won the Miss Crossroads competition.
- She wanted to be an actress and acted in plays for a while. Sejal also auditioned many times but was always rejected.
- In 2016, she was selected for the Campus Princess pageant (a sub-pageant of Miss Diva), where she won the titles of Miss Multimedia and Miss Rampwalk.
- She loves dogs very much and often posts pictures of her with them on her Instagram account.
- Sejal has been featured on the cover of Glittering India magazine.
- Sejal’s friends think she is a weird healthy person because she is used to eating only homemade food. Kumar doesn’t like fast food, popcorn or carbonated drinks.
- Sejal likes to go to bed early at night and cannot stay up past 10 pm.
- As a child, she was very introverted, hardly spoke to her relatives, and followed her mother everywhere.
- Sejal is very active on social media. She has over 140,000 subscribers on YouTube, 102,000 followers on Instagram, and 13,000 likes on her Facebook page.
- In March 2017, Sejal was officially invited to participate in YouTube FanFest, an event organized by YouTube to celebrate and promote the biggest YouTube stars in the world.
- In 2019, Sejal was involved in UNICEF’s Convention on the Rights of the Child initiative.
- In 2020, she was selected as the India ambassador for YouTube’s ‘Creators for Change’ project, a project centered on girls’ education in partnership with the Obama Foundation.
- In an interview, when Sejal was asked about the challenges of being a vlogger, she said, “You are your own boss; you are responsible for posting the content.”
- As of 2020, Sejal has created over 600 different videos.
- Her friends and family fondly called her Joy, Mani, Bhondee and Bittoo.
- She has a tattoo on her left wrist.
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