Yumi Kohama

 I am Yumi and I am a Japanese Model and Actress based in Brisbane. 
I moved to Australia in 2016 and living here permanently.

 

I have experience in working as a photographic model, background extra, actress, run way model, and personal fashion stylist. 

I have a huge passion for acting and I love being in front of the camera. 

I have completed Acting class level 1 and level 2 with Positive Impact Academy in 2020.

I also have extensive knowledge of my own culture. I am able to do Tea Ceremony, Flower Arrangement, Calligraphy, Traditional Singing(Minyo) and Traditional Dancing(So-ran bushi) and I own a few Kimono (Japanese traditional clothes)

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The reason why I wanted to become Actress and Model is because I would like to share the message to the world that we can archive anything if we had right mind set and make the effort.

I was bullied in Highschool from my classmates because of my weight and the fact that my family used to be rich. I was treated like a garbage. And there were many times that I wanted to end my life. Therefore, I suffered from eating-disorder and within 2 months, my weight dropped from 64kg to 39kg. At that time my life changed dramatically.

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Everyone treated me differently and I became one of the popular girls in my school.
At first, I hated that people were much nicer to me and complimenting about my looks just because I lost some weight. Everyone treated me differently and I became one of the popular girls in my school.

At first, I hated that people were much nicer to me and complimenting about my looks just because I lost some weight.

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However, I noticed that though my choices and actions I could make a positive impact on people. I decided to submit my "before" and "after" photo to fitness magazine and it was successfully published.

I wanted to show people who might be suffering from the same problem as me that we can change.

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