Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan Biography
Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan is a successful Indian model and beauty pageant winner. She was crowned the Miss Tourism Queen International in the year 2004, the first model to earn this title. She won this title soon after it was started in 2004, thus becoming the first model to claim this title in the pageant's history. At the age of 19, she competed in Gladrags Manhunt and Megamodel Contest in 2004, which gave her the direct entry to participate in the first edition of Miss Tourism Queen International held in China and she won the title too.
Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan hails from a Muslim family in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was born in the year 1985. Started her modelling profession in her teens, she participated in Gladrags Manhunt and Megamodel Contest in 2004 at the age of 19, her first major contest of modelling career. She got selected to compete in the first edition of Miss Tourism Queen International in 2004 and returned back to India with the crown. Julia Liptakova from Slovak Republic, Chao Junnan from China, Jolena Kwasow from Germany and Pawina Bamrungrot from Thailand were other four finalists of the contest. Jolena Kwasow and Chao Junnan finished just behind her. Thus she claimed the first ever title of this international beauty pageant.
Quite interestingly Indian beauties have never managed to win this title again, or reach at top 5 finalists’ position. Unlike many beauty pageant winners, this dusky never associated with film industry. She was quite active in the fashion industry for a while. She is shortly called Zabina and Zabina Khan in the friends’ circle.
Published: October 01, 2018
Updated: October 01, 2018