She was born in a middle-class Punjabi Hindu family from Delhi. She shifted to Mumbai to pursue her career. Kumar married Bhushan Kumar, the head of T-Series on 13 February 2005 at the Maa Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra. They have a son Ruhaan Her sister-in-law is playback singer Tulsi Ralhan.

Divya started her career in Bollywood as an actress with the 2004 film Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo. ( She also made her Tollywood debut in the same year with the film Love Today ). Divya then did a course in cinematography and editing. After that Divya directed music videos for Agam Nigam, Jermaine Jackson, Tulsi Kumar, and a few ad films. After directing 20 music videos Divya directed her first directiorial venture Yaariyan in 2014.^[9] Divya also choreographed 5 songs in the film including Baarish, Maa, Love Me Thoda Aur, Allah Wariya and Zor Lagake.^[10] Divya recently debuted as director for a college romance movie called Yaariyan that released on 10 January 2014 and then her new directorial movie Sanam Re was released on 12th Feb 2016.^{[11][12][13][14]} Divya is also one of the producers of Ranbir Kapoor starrer film Roy.

As an actress

She starred in film Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo opposite to Akshay Kumar. She has also starred in songs "Humne Pee Rakhi Hai" and "Akkad Bakkad", from her movie Sanam Re in 2016. Now she is coming in lead role again in BulBul which will release on 7th December 2017, the film is directed by Ashish Panda.

As director

Music Videos

As producer