What are some lesser known facts about the Indian actress Zareen Khan?

• Zareen was born into a conservative Muslim family with ancestral roots in Afghanistan.
• She was a bright student and always used to score above 90%.
• During her school days, she was obese and weighed around 100 kg. Though she never thought of becoming an actress, she started working on her weight loss, and gradually she lost around 40 kg of weight.

• She initially wanted to become a doctor, but due to poor financial conditions, she wasn’t able to study further.
• Zarine Khan was noticed by Salman Khan on her visit on the set of the film ‘Yuvraaj’ (2008) at Subhash Ghai‘s film school Whistling Woods.

• For her Princess Yashodhara’s role in ‘Veer’ (2010), she gained around 8 kg of weight.
• In 2015, she won the Best Female Debut Award at the PTC Punjabi Film Awards for the Punjabi film ‘Jatt James Bond’ (2014).
• She is good at speaking Hindi, Urdu, English, Marathi, and Pashto.
• In 2017, a weight loss pill company offered her ₹1 crore, but she declined the offer, saying that, “I cannot endorse something I don’t believe in. I work very hard every day in the gym and believe there are no shortcuts to weight loss.”