Reshma Qureshi is a model, vlogger, and anti-acid activist from India. She is the face of Make Love Not Scars in India. Her first foray into modelling in the United States occurred in 2016, when she walked the runway for Archana Kochhar during New York Fashion Week.
Qureshi was born in Eastern Mumbai, India, as the youngest daughter of a taxi driver.They shared a two-bedroom apartment with all ten members of the family.She majored in business at school.Qureshi was seventeen years old when she was attacked with sulfuric acid by her estranged brother-in-law and two other assailants while travelling to Allahabad for an Alim exam on May 19, 2014. The attack was intended for her sister Gulshan, but Qureshi was misidentified as her. While the two other assailants were never apprehended following the attack, her brother-in-law was apprehended.
She felt suicidal for a short time after the attack because she was scarred on her face and arms and had lost one of her eyes completely. Following her recovery, Qureshi became the face of the Make Love Not Scars campaign, which aims to give "a voice to those who have been assaulted" by acid attacks and advocates for the abolition of acid sales in India. She also started making beauty tutorials online to protest the sale of acid. The videos were described as "ridiculously empowering" by Cosmopolitan.
In a September 2017 interview with India New England News, Qureshi was asked if she had heard from her attacker. "I haven't spoken to the attacker or his family in particular, but I met him two months ago in court, and I instinctively wanted to rip his throat out, to be honest... When he saw me, he told his lawyer and people, "She has become so big and a model, she is in a good place, so please release me or help me out," she said.

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