Arianna Ayesha Afsar was born (October 22, 1991) to a German American mother and a Bangladeshi father. She is a pageant titleholder from San Diego, California who was a semi-finalist on American Idol 8 and placed in the Top 10 at the Miss America 2011 pageant.
Afsar is a graduate of Westview High School and a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles.