Arshi Khan, is an Indian model, actress, internet celebrity, reality television personality and former politician. She is known for participating in Bigg Boss 11. She joined the Indian National Congress party to contest the 2019 elections for Mumbai.

Khan was reportedly born in Afghanistan and belonged to a Pathan family of Bhopal although she has also clarified with another statement where it was her grandfather that was from Afghanistan and migrated to Bhopal. She and her family are possible said to have moved to India when Khan was four years old. Khan did her schooling and graduation at Bhopal. Later, Khan went to Mumbai to try her luck in acting and modelling. Khan was a qualified physiotherapist before she started pursuing a career in acting and modelling.

Recently, Khan opened up about her hardships moving to Mumbai after eviction from Bigg Boss 14.

She was chosen to portray a lead role in India's first mainline Bollywood 4D historical action film titled "The Last Emperor". She has also appeared in the Tamil film Malli Mishtu. In 2017, she was one of the participants in the reality television show Bigg Boss 11. She was earlier considered to participate in the last two seasons of the show. During her appearances on the show, she was Google India's second-most searched entertainer of 2017.

In 2018, Arshi featured in a Punjabi Music video- Nakhre. Khan has been featured in 5 music videos that include "Bandi", which has already gained 4.2 million on YouTube and Nain Nasheele which already has started to hit 2 million worldwide.

She was a participant in Bigg Boss 14, where she joined in as one of the four challenger participants.

Arshi joined The Great Khali's wrestling school CWE in 2021.

In February 2019, Arshi joined Indian National Congress, but later resigned in August due to professional commitments.