Meena Karib

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Meena Karib
Biographical Information
Status	Alive
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Brown
Other Relatives	Umi Karib (paternal grandmother) Kash Karib (father) Yvonne Karib (mother) Shaza Karib (paternal aunt) Auntie Usma (paternal aunt) Chesney Karib (brother) Sita Desai (cousin)
Partners	Carl Gallagher (brief fling)
Series Information
Portrayed by	Sarah Patel (Series 4) Sarah Byrne (Series 5 - 7)
Series/Season	4 - 7
UK or US	UK

Meena Karib is the daughter of Yvonne and Kash Karib and the sister of Chesney. She was known to be quite wild in her early teen years, convincing many boys that she was pregnant in order to get money from them for abortions, as she did with Carl Gallagher until her mother found out and revealed the truth. She later matured, reacting calmly when she found out that Yvonne had helped fake Kash's death only feeling bad for her brother who was having trouble dealing with it.

In Series 5, she arranged a marriage with a medical student from Pakistan, faking being her mother to his parents to gain their approval but later got cold feet and didn't go through with it. She later set her sights on a modeling career and though she was never visibly successful, she continued to follow that path until leaving Chatsworth during Series 7, when Meena moved to Pakistan with Yvonne and Stan.

Notes.

• Both Meena and Chesney appeared at the beginning of Series 1, but were not named at the time.

• Meena's character was first named in the Christmas Special in Series 2, but generally went undepicted until Series 4.

• Meena was briefly portrayed by Sarah Patel at the end of Series 4, but her role was re-cast for Sarah Byrne, who appeared throughout Series 5 and 6.