Canadian supermodel, actor, author, painter and entrepreneur, Saira balances her versatility with a multi-cultural ancestry. She was born to a French-Irish-Canadian mother and a Punjabi father and grew up in Vancouver. When she was 13, she won an Elite Look-of-the-Year contest held in a Los Angeles mall and since then, has gone on to grace the international catwalk and several magazine covers. In 2003, she was Newsweek’s face of global beauty. In leisure, she plays doting mom to son Ramkumar.