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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Anita Moorjani

Anita Moorjani who was born as Anita Shamdasani on 16 March 1959, is a international speaker and an Author. She has written and published five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Dying to be Me.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Sri Lanka, and when she was two years old, the family moved to Hong Kong, where she and her older brother Anoop grew up. Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting facts about her;

1.Moorjani is currently multilingual

Moorjani is currently multilingual, Moorjani’s parents are Indian, and because of her diverse cultural background, she grew up multilingual, speaking Sindhi, Cantonese, and English simultaneously. 

Moorjani and her brother both studied in British schools. As an ethnic minority in a majority British school, Moorjani says she was often the victim of bullying.She is one of most learned celebrities in the world.

2.She lay in a Coma for 30 hours after she was diagnosed with cancer

In 2006 she lay in a coma for 30 hours, during which Moorjani claims to have undergone a near-death experience, after she was diagnosed with stage 1A Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2002, and rejected conventional treatment. Moorjani was taken to a hospital and went into coma. 

During those 30 hours, Moorjani asserts that she experienced many characteristic details of a near death experience. Her account includes an out-of-body experience with observations and awareness of physical surroundings.

3.She experimented with alternative healing to no avail 

Before that Moorjani experimented with various alternative healing practices to no avail. She subsequently underwent several conventional cancer treatments until she went into coma and that’s where she got a turning point. 

Moorjani said she had a strong reluctance to return to her suffering and dying physical body but was encouraged to return by her father and her best friend who told her that she needed to return and to “live her life fearlessly.”

4.After coming out of coma, her tumors shrank and by 5 weeks she was cancer free

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Subsequent to coming out of her coma, Moorjani’s tumors shrank by about 70% within four days, and within five weeks she was cancer-free and released from the hospital, although she had to spend a few months in physiotherapy to regain her strength and the use of all her muscles and limbs.

Moorjani remains cancer-free to this day. Her treatment looks like a miraculous healing. She has since resorted to writing her journey to healing in her works and has wrote more than 4 books. 

5.She wrote her first book about her healing and it was published in 2012 

Moorjani submitted the description of her NDE and subsequent healing to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) website, a site owned and run by oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody Long, a family law attorney.

Moorjani’s story came to the attention of American self-help author, Wayne Dyer, who contacted his publishers, Hay House, asking them to locate her and suggest that she write a book, which they would publish.Her first book “Dying to be Me” was published in March 2012, and hit The New York Times bestsellers list two weeks after its release.

6.She has been interviewed by several media shows and programmes

Moorjani was then invited to be on Wayne Dyer’s PBS special titled “Wishes Fulfilled”, and since then, has been interviewed on “Fox And Friends,” CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” National Geographic International, Karen Davila’s Headstart on ANC Philippines, and many others.

Dying to be Me has subsequently sold over a million copies worldwide, and has been published in more than 40 languages.In January 2016, Moorjani’s case attracted the attention of Dr. Oz, who scrutinized her medical records, and subsequently invited her to be on his show.

7.Moorjani has written and published a total of five books including one best seller

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Moorjani has written and published a total of five books including one best selling including one best selling in the New York Times. Moorjani has also published three additional books: “What if this is Heaven” (Hay House 2016), a self-published children’s book “Love – A Story About Who You Truly Are” (2017), and most recently, the self-empowering “Sensitive is the New Strong” (Simon and Schuster, 2021).

Skeptics criticize Moorjani’s message. Vicky Allen, journalist at The Herald Scotland, states is one of the most critical critic of her message on cancer treatment. Peter Allmark of Sheffield Hallam University, co-author of a 2011 paper, A Critique Of Positive Thinking In Cancer Care, also denounces the approach and terms it as “quackery”.

8.She is married to Danny Moorjani

Moorjani is married to Danny Moorjani whom she met in Hong Kong. The couple married each other in December 1995 and they currently don’t have children of their own. Moorjani lives with her husband in the United States.

Moorjani was born to Sindhi Indian parents Hargobind (father) and Neelu (mother) Shamdasani in Singapore and they raised her through some difficult circumstances having had to move to different countries during her growing up days. 

9.Moorjani’s net worth is around $5million 

Moorjani’s net worth is around $5million and she got most of her wealth from her career as an author and a writer. One of her book became best New York Times selling of the time just a few weeks after its release. She has since been invited to several media programmes. 

She is ranked among one of the richest people born on march 16 and among the richest people who are 63 years of age. Shw is also one of Singapore’s richest celebrities.

10.She was heartbroken on numerous accounts before she made it

She was heartbroken on numerous accounts before she made it. She was a victim of bullying as she grew up.Her doctors also broke her heart when they informed her and her family that it was 鈥渢oo late鈥� to save her life. The lymphoma had spread throughout her body and had metastasized.

She has over 160,000 followers on her anitamoorjani Instagram account.Ranked on the list of most popular Non-Fiction Author. Also ranked in the elite list of famous celebrity born in Singapore. Anita Moorjani celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.