Sapna Bhavnani Biography

Sapna Bhavnani was born in Mumbai and raised in Bandra where she completed high school. She had a reputation as a good student and was tomboyish in her childhood. She rode to school on a motorcycle and liked to pull pranks. Her father, who was a businessman, died when she was 18. Following her father's death, her family started facing financial difficulties. Bhavnani then decided to drop out of her college in Mumbai and move to the United States. Her Indian-American aunt helped her with her immigration to Chicago in 1989. In Chicago, Bhavnani initially worked as a waitress before enrolling herself as a student at a business school. She graduated with a double major in Marketing and Communication and a minor in Public Speaking from Chicago's Barat College.[3] Bhavnani also experimented in fashion designing. She then developed an interest in hairdressing and took it up as a profession. In 2002, Bhavnani visited India after six years and happened to reconnect with an old boyfriend and decided to move back to India.