Awhatukee resident and international model, Kanksha Mehta, shares her passions and inspirational story of survival.
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By Marlene Montanez
Let Freedom Ring
Awhatukee resident and international model, Kanksha Mehta, shares her passions and inspirational story of survival.
Freedom.
It’ s something that as Americans, we’ re all celebrating this month as the Fourth of July nears. But for Kanksha Mehta, it’ s a concept she’ s just now getting reacquainted with.
It’ s a hot summer morning when I meet with Kanksha Mehta at Chandler Fashion Center. She’ s bright, beautiful, polished and professional. Exactly what you’ d expect when meeting an international model and actress. No one would guess that someone so young, so accomplished and so vibrant is just getting out of a serious relationship that nearly ended her life.
As we grab our coffees, she tells me about the editorial piece her and her close photographer friend, Jennifer Alyse Rogers, recently wrapped up.“ It’ s inspired by my experience, coming out of it and being almost reborn, and the power we have inside us as women. It’ s about how we can use that to renew ourselves, even after traumatic experiences.”
What she is referring to is surviving an abusive relationship with her now exfiancé.“ I had a near death experience” she says.“ A lot of my power was taken away from me and I was just barely surviving, I’ m still in survival mode.”
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Photos by Jennifer Alyse Rogers