Nadya Yuti Hutagalung is an Indonesian-Australian model, actress, and presenter. She is known as the host and judge of the first two cycles of ''
Asia's Next Top Model
''Asia's Next Top Model'' (abbreviated as ''AsNTM'') is a reality television show based on the American franchise ''America's Next Top Model'' in which a number of aspiring models compete for the title of ''Asia's Next Top Model'' and a chance ...
'', one of the first
VJs on
MTV Asia
MTV was a pan-Asian music pay-television channel which launched on 3 May 1995 as a standalone pay television channel. It was owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA.
History
MTV Asia was officially launched on 3 May 1995 as a 24-hour English-languag ...
, and a VJ on American
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
.
She was born in Sydney to an Australian mother and an Indonesian father.
She married
Desmond Koh
Desmond Koh Mun Kit (born 19 May 1973) is a former competitive swimmer from Singapore and represented the nation in numerous international competitions over a period of more than 10 years including 5 years as National Captain.
Swimming ...
at the Uma Ubud in
Bali
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on 16 December 2006,
and currently resides in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
. She is a practising Buddhist.
Besides her modelling, she's also a MediaWorks artist, painter, and jewellery designer. She launched her own sustainable jewelry line called OSEL, which means ŒClear Light¹ in Tibetan.
References
External links
Nadya Hutagalung Official Site
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1974 births
Living people
Actresses from Sydney
Australian Buddhists
Australian female models
Australian people of Indonesian descent
Models from Sydney
VJs (media personalities)
Australian actresses