
Nargis Fakhri slays in ethnic wear

Fakhri was born on October 20, 1979, in Queens, New York City, to Mohammed Fakhri and Marie Fakhri, a former police officer.

Her Pakistani father and Czech mother had another daughter—her younger sister, Aliya.

Her parents divorced when she was six, and her father died a few years later.

Fakhri describes herself as a global citizen of mixed Pakistani-Czech ethnicity and American nationality.