Lisa Ray battling Multiple Myeloma
Posted on September 14, 2009
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Born of a Polish mother and a Bengali father on April 4th Lisa Ray excelled academically, doing five years of high school in four, while attending three different high schools. She spoke Polish to her maternal grandmother and watched movies of Federico Fellini and Satayjit Ray with her cinephile dad. Ray was spotted by an agent in a crowd during a family vacation in India when she was 16, when she began modelling.
Discovered, at the age of sixteen, by Maureen Wadia, through her Glad Rags magazine, nearly ten years ago, Lisa ray flew to India from Canada,where she had been raised,little did she know what future had in store for her. Her visit to India—to meet her near and dear ones—proved to be a turning point in her life and career. Lisa’s chiseled face and sylph-like figure caught the attention of the modeling world and soon she got the offer for an ad for a well-known fabrics company. Since then there has been no looking back for Lisa as she went on to become one of the most sought after models who could steal the entire show with her shimmering presence.
But soon she got over the appreciation from the fashion fraternity and forayed into the world of films with the music video ‘Afreen’ (for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). She is also the beautiful host of the movie show ‘Star Buzz’ (with Kelly Dorjee) on Star Movies. Now Lisa has jumped aboard the Bollywood bandwagon with Vikram Bhatt’ production in which she has acted quite well, considering it is her maiden attempt in films. For future Lisa is not much enthusiastic about pursuing an acting career in Bollywood, although there are chances of her doing more films. Indian origin actress Lisa Ray has been featured in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine as one of the ’50 Most Beautiful People’ of the country.
she has been practising yoga for about 10 years and visited Dharamsala for month long silent meditation retreats every year. The source added that Lisa chanted mantras for hours and practised various meditation techniques. Lisa also considers herself a student of many spiritual traditions and goes for ayurvedic retreats. Lisa gave a shocker last week when she revealed that she was she was battling Multiple Myeloma, a rare type of bone marrow cancer in her blog. She had mentioned that she had already taken the first course of treatment. Lisa who is bold not just on the screen but off it as well refuses to bow down and is attending a 10 day Film Festival in Toronto.
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i love you so much Lisa roy
You are Gorgeous
I respect her alot
Umm …..She is a One of the most Hottest Actress in the Bollywood Industry.
I am Big fan of Lisa Ray.
Thank you.
i luv the way u act in ‘kill kill faster faster’
i respect your strength to rebirth.