![]() The recognition has helped the young girl transform both her and her family’s life. “We made a profile video of her and audition opportunities started coming,” Hoffman said. She soon started getting noticed and landed her first modelling assignment with a magazine. The actor helped Ms Kharwa with a profile video and posted it on social media. Maleesha Kharwa with her father Mukesh, brother Sahil and Hollywood actor Robert Hoffman. She was so striking,” Hoffman told The National. “I was fascinated when I met her, she was sitting on a mattress in a makeshift tent. The actor then set up a crowdfunding page to help with her education and fuel her dreams of becoming a model. Hoffman was in Mumbai to shoot a music video when he met the young model through an acquaintance. It was three years ago when she serendipitously met the Step Up 2: The Streets and Grey’s Anatomy actor Robert Hoffman – and she says he changed her life. Her father works as a clown at children’s events to support the family. Ms Kharwa was born to Gujarati parents in Mumbai. Many on social media have drawn comparisons between her and the main character of Oscar-winning 2008 Hollywood film Slumdog Millionaire that portrays the rags-to-riches story of a boy from an Indian shanty town. I dream of becoming a supermodel one day." I started dreaming of becoming a model when I was five years old. Everyone recognises me and asks me for selfies. "Before I was not on posters, newspapers or on TV channels but now I am all over the world. “My life has changed,” Ms Kharwa told The National. The young model has earned a massive fan following on social media – more than 318,000 followers – where she posts snippets from her personal and professional life and tries to inspire others. Maleesha Kharwa, 15, lived in slums before she was spotted by Hollywood actor Robert Hoffman and became a model. She has now appeared on the covers of fashion magazines including Vogue and Cosmopolitan and has recently been chosen as the face for Forest Essentials, an Indian skincare brand, for their teenage products campaign. ![]() Maleesha Kharwa, 15, has lived her whole life in a makeshift shanty in Bandra in the financial capital of India, but a chance meeting changed everything. A teenager from an underprivileged community in Mumbai has become an overnight sensation after being chosen as the face for a luxury skincare brand.
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