MODEL, ACTRESS, SINGER, & DANCER....
Some things said and written about me....

["She always has a smile on her face — she cannot help it, it is just naturally there — as she selflessly gives of herself."

A MetroWest resident, Ruby was born 37 years ago in West Bengal, India, to an English/Irish mother and Indian/English father. She was a baby model, and as a young woman, entered several beauty pageants and was known around India as the Colgate-Palmolive girl in magazine advertisements and TV commercials. She recalls that she had become so popular that her advertisements became controversial.

“Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi had me taken off TV because he condemned the ad as too provocative, according to their cultural standards,” she said.

However, as glamorous as her lifestyle was, Ruby had other, more meaningful plans for her life. She came to the United States; attended Howard University; became a U.S. citizen. Working three jobs — which included modeling contract jobs; acting as characters at Universal Studios and Walt Disney World; playing the Singing elf at Christmas; and working in Florida Hospital’s emergency room on weekends — she completed her schooling to become a paramedic, mental-health counselor and registered nurse.

Ruby travelled overseas on medical missions all over Asia. She was not home long before she was traveling again — this time to Ghana, Africa where she volunteered deligently to assist with the medical needs of children in a small area of Ghana, Africa.
“I had this endless need to go [to Ghana],” she said.

“It was very rewarding,” she said. “It gave me such a good feeling. I didn’t want to return.”

Home again, in Southwest Orlando, Ruby is an on-call nurse, and she works as a liaison with doctors for psychiatric home health care. She is also a hospice nurse and works with trauma patients in the intensive-care units. In her “free time,” Ruby volunteers as a Guardian ad Litem, advocating abused and neglected children.

“She never ceases the opportunity to be involved in community service,” said Alexis Hall, a staunch ally and friend.]