Taken from Mercedes-Khani.com
"I am bi-lingual, I speak both the language of Iran, which is Farsi and the language of Holland, which is Dutch. I learned to speak English at school. I was raised with both the European open minded culture and the Persian culture of courtesy and manners, class, hospitality towards others and great respect towards the elder and the wiser. This is what shines through my pictures as well.

During high school I was active in local modeling, after high school was when I began to get into fitness. I finished high school on HAVO level. In Holland we have a different schooling system, we have high school in levels of difficulty. VBO being the lowest, followed by MAVO for medium, HAVO for the higher level and VWO preparing you to go straight to university. After graduating high school in 2002, I went straight to college and studies psychology for one year. I was very interested in psychology to learn more about myself, about how the human mind works and how to be able to positively influence this to help other people in their lives. But after studying psychology for a year I realized that even though I was highly interested in psychology, I didn't want to make it my full time career. And besides that, I couldn't keep my focus on studying at that time... More