Kaila was
born on
May 16th on a cold night in
Taipei, Taiwan.
She moved to
California when
she was three years old and grew up in the
Sunshine State, California.
Kaila was
lucky enough to recognize her talents as a performer at an
early age.
She enjoyed using her
vivid imagination to entertain her family by putting on shows for them. Kaila also organized singing musicals and plays for the
neighborhood with her
cousins and the neighborhood children.
Career driven at such a
young age
along with the full support of her family, Kaila's parents kept her
busy with
piano classes, ballet lessons,
tap dancing classes, Chinese folk dancing classes, cello lessons,
speed contests,
SAT classes and
Chinese school. All of that and
She still had
time to participate in extracurricular activities in high school, was on swim team and the
cross country team in high school.
Kaila was a confident kid but suddenly became shy when
She skipped a grade in
elementary school. Kaila was suddenly out of her
element and became painfully shy. No longer a confident kid in school,
she had few close
friends and studied
hard in all her classes. She became a
nerd throughout
junior high and into high school. Like many, high school was the least favorite part of her life. She was a nerd with no
sense of style, was painfully shy, and had strict parents that never let her out.
The biggest
change in her life came the second
She graduated high school and went to attend
college at UCSD.
she originally majored in biology because she had an interest in becoming a
plastic surgeon. She ended up with an economics degree because it was the closest thing to a business degree that
UCLA has
just to have a
generic degree to
fall back on. She never intends to use that degree. Its more of a backup
plan incase her career didn't
go though. For the first
time in her life, she
felt free and far away from her strict parents! She finally overcame her shyness and partied like crazy. She always had a desire to pursue a career in the
entertainment business. She realized that she needed to be in
Los Angeles to pursue modeling and singing so she immediately transferred to UCLA. It was
hard breaking into the
industry. Kaila met lots of shady
characters and con artists
along the way. Kaila, being a self motivated individual had to learn to build her website on her own by
reading HTML for Dummies!! She eventually got her website up and running. She got noticed by the Import industry and
Playboy Magazine and finally got to follow her
dream. She gained popularity through modeling in import car shows and became a full time model, working the Import
Car show scene and won the title of "Most Searched Import Model.". Kaila has been featured in several magazines including Import Tuner,
Playboy, and FHM. Kaila has achieved everything that she hoped for in modeling, now her
heart is completely focused on
music now. She knows the road is going to be a lot tougher than the modeling industry but that's not enough to stop her from pursuing her
dreams.
She has a site up dedicated to her
music and released her first self-titled album, "Kaila" in 2003.
With her supermodel looks, Kaila would also seem that
She wouldn't leave
the house unless
she looked like she
just stepped off the
pages of
Vogue. However, she chooses not to
view herself as a model. As a "triple-threat" model, actress, and singer, her work includes gracing the pages of
Playboy, as well as being
in fashion spreads and calendars like the "
Pacific USA 2001 Calendar," and even releasing her own calendar in 2003. She's
made appearances in such TV shows as "MTV's
house if Style," and "The
Man show," and on major
networks like E!, USA, Playboy TV.
Kaila Yu can also be seen in
music videos,
international television and films, such as "Three
Sisters" and "Toilet
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