Nadya Hutagalung

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Nadya Hutagalung
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Nadya Hutagalung, November 2009
Born
Nadya Yuti Hutagalung

(1974-07-28) 28 July 1974 (age 49)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupations
  • Model
  • actress
  • presenter
Years active1995–present
Spouse
Desmond Koh
(m. 2006)
Children3
Modeling information
Agency Fly Entertainment

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 , one of the first VJs on MTV Asia, and a VJ on American MTV.

She was born in Sydney to an Australian mother and an Indonesian Muslim father. [1] She married Desmond Koh at the Uma Ubud in Bali on 16 December 2006, [1] and currently resides in Singapore. She is a practicing Buddhist.

Besides her modeling, she's also a MediaWorks artist, painter, and jewelry designer. She launched her sustainable jewelry line called OSEL, which means ŒClear Light¹ in Tibetan. [1]

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References

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