Rakhi Sawant was born on 1978 in Mumbai to a Marathi family. Her father is employed with Mumbai police and mother is a homemaker. She has one brother Rakesh and a sister Jaya, brother is a nascent movie director and her sister has acted in two films but quit the industry after her marriage.
Rakhi grew up in a conservative family. As a child, she studied in Goklibai School, Vile Parle and later studied Arts at Mithibai College, Mumbai. Her father was against her wishes to be in the glamour world, as he felt that acting was not a respectable profession, but her utter determination to move on acting broke their family and now her father lives alone in government quarter, while her mother lives with her.
