{"id":13756,"date":"2015-02-09T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2015-07-02T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T01:59:50","slug":"amber-chia-interview-a-model-of-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/amber-chia-interview-a-model-of-determination","title":{"rendered":"Amber Chia Interview: A Model Of Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From selling fish illegally at a market in Tawau, Sabah, Amber Chia has made a name for herself as a model and entrepreneur in Malaysia. This Teluk Intan born lass did not have it easy.<\/p>\n<p>Financial problems tore her family apart when she had to live with foster parents at eight years old, as her birth parents could no longer afford to support her and send her to school. She did not go to school until she lived with her foster parents.<\/p>\n<p>When she turned 12, she moved back to her birth parents in Tawau, and she was determined to make as much money as she could.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked two jobs from the age of 12. I started out helping my dad to sell fish in the market from 3 a.m., then go to school until noon, and work the night shift at the pub as a cashier, which usually ends about 12 a.m.,\u201d says Chia.<\/p>\n<p>She left school after Form Three, and started working three jobs &#8212; selling fish with her father in the morning, sales girl in the mall during the day and also cashier at the pub at night.<\/p>\n<p>It was not a bed of roses for Chia, but her determination pushed her to be who she is today &#8212; a successful supermodel and entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<h3>iMoney\u2019s editor, Iris Lee, charts Amber Chia&#8217;s rise from a small town girl to a cosmopolitan supermodel.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iMoney\u2019s editor, Iris Lee, charts Amber Chia&#8217;s rise from a small town girl to a cosmopolitan supermodel. 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