Kimi was born in Punjab on Nov 20, 1977. She did her elementary studies at Guru Hargobind public school, Sidwan Khurd and later moved to Mumbai. It was the celluloid city where she completed her education. She was brilliant at academics. She was a good athlete and a basketball player. She was the captain of basketball team at school. It was while at College midway that she was persuaded by friends and well wishers to compete in the Miss Bombay and Miss India contests and walked away with the title in the first and the Femina Miss India Beautiful Hair in the second. She was picked up by the advertising world and landed up with plush modeling assignments and became the spokesperson for Ponds Skin Care Products in India, UK and Egypt. Life took another beautiful turn while she was in school studying in 10th grade. She was noticed by director Manmohan Singh and writer Baldev Gill. They were looking for a young innocent girl to play the title role in the movie Naseebo. That was her first movie that she did while in school. Her first stint in acting turned out to be very successful, the movie was liked by one and all. In Canada and U.S., every Punjabi household had a copy of this movie. Despite the success she was achieving in her modeling and film career, Kimi Verma was always clearheaded in what she wanted to do with her life . To her studies was key and throughout her academic career she remained at the top of the class . She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and kept doing Punjabi movies while living in Los Angeles.