Amber Chia

Amber Chia is a Malaysian model, actress, TV host and brand ambassador. She was born in Teluk Intan, Malaysia, but grew up in the city of Tawau, in Sabah, East Malaysia. She began her modelling career at seventeen in Kuala Lumpur.

Chia was born in Teluk Intan, Perak. Due to her parents hardship, she was taken care by foster parents at eight years old. When she turned 12, Chia moved back to Tawau, Sabah. She stopped schooling at 15, to work fulltime in order to help her family. In an interview with iMoney.my, Chia worked three jobs selling fish at the market in the morning, salesgirl at a small mall in the day and a cashier at a pub at night. At 17, she left for Kuala Lumpur to be a model and rose to prominent after Winning the Guess Watches Timeless Beauty International Model Search 2004 title.

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