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How to Write the 'About Me' Section

VivahAI Editorial · 10 August 2026 · 7 min read

Every other field on a biodata has a correct answer. This one doesn't, which is why it is the section people rewrite six times and then fill with adjectives that could describe anybody.

The purpose of About Me is narrow: give a stranger one specific reason to remember you among the twelve biodata they were sent this week. Not to summarise your character. Not to list your virtues. One memorable, true detail beats five accurate abstractions.

A structure that works

  1. What you do, in the way you would say it to a friend rather than on a CV.
  2. How you actually spend your free time — the real answer, including the unimpressive parts.
  3. Something that matters to you — family, work, faith, a place, an ambition.
  4. What you are hoping for in a partner, in one sentence, if you want to say it at all.

Forty to eighty words. Four sentences. Longer than that and it stops sounding like a person and starts sounding like a covering letter.

Before and after

Instead of this

I am a simple, God-fearing girl with family values. I believe in respecting elders and maintaining a happy home. I am caring, honest and adjusting by nature.

Try this

I teach Class 8 maths at a school in Kochi, which means I spend a lot of my day explaining why fractions are not a personal attack. Weekends are for my grandmother's garden and long, unproductive arguments about films with my sister. I'd like to meet someone who talks to me like an equal.

The first could be about four million people. The second could only be about one, and it took the same amount of space.

Instead of this

Hardworking software professional with good communication skills, seeking a life partner who is understanding and supportive of my career goals.

Try this

I write software for hospitals — unglamorous work that occasionally saves somebody's afternoon. I run every morning before it gets hot, badly. I'm close to my parents and would like to stay near them. Looking for someone who has their own thing going on.

Instead of this

I am an outgoing person who loves travelling, reading and listening to music.

Try this

I've been slowly working through my father's shelf of Tamil detective novels, which is bigger than it looks. I travel when I can — Ladakh last winter, and I have not been warm since.

Phrases worth deleting

Not because they are wrong, but because they have been used so often that a reader's eye slides straight past them.

  • "Simple girl / simple boy from a respectable family"
  • "God-fearing", unless faith is genuinely central for you — in which case say what it actually looks like in your week
  • "Adjusting by nature" — this reads to many people as a warning about who is expected to do the adjusting
  • "Family-oriented with traditional values" — true of nearly every biodata ever written
  • "Loves travelling" with no destination attached
  • "Good sense of humour" — demonstrate it in a sentence instead, or leave it out

Writing it for someone else

Parents often draft this section, and it shows: the voice goes formal and third-person and the person disappears. If you are writing for your son or daughter, interview them for five minutes and use their words. Ask what they did last Sunday. The answer is almost always better than anything either of you would have composed.

Say the hard things plainly

A second marriage, a disability, being a single parent, living apart from family — none of these need apologising for, and none of them belong buried in a paragraph. One clear line, stated as fact, in the personal details rather than in About Me:

Stated plainly
Marital Status: Divorced (2023), no children
Marital Status: Widowed, one daughter (age 6), lives with me

Readers who are going to mind will mind either way. Readers who don't will appreciate not having to work it out. What you are looking for is the family that reads that line and keeps reading.

If the whole page still feels thin, the problem may be elsewhere — nine mistakes that get a biodata ignored covers the rest.

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