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Ojy Okpe is a popular Nigerian model who has attained International recognition. The stunning mother of two rose to the international modeling scene after emerging a finalist at the Face of Africa competition. Ojy Okpe was born on the 23rd of April, in the south eastern Nigeria to diplomatic parents who travelled widely across the country with her and her five siblings.
Ojy was first discovered at the young age of 17 by talent scout Jan Malan who entered her into the face of Africa competition. Ojy emerged a first class world model after the face of Africa competition of which she was a finalist. Ojy got a contract from Storm Model Management and later moved to South Africa to hustle for work, precisely in fashion industry.
Within weeks of modeling, this stunner graced the pages of Elle, Cosmopolitan, Drum, True Love and strutted the runway for SA fashion week. She relocated to New York and soon became the muse for legendary swimwear brand, Gottex. She showcased their swimwear line every season at the New York Mercedes Benz fashion week. In , Ojy in partnership with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, set up a foundation, a platform created to cater for the less privileged children in the society.
She was not only the face of the brand, but developed distribution channels for the products in her country. Ojy Okpe is also a film producer.
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Through her Third Mainland Productions, she has done a number of Hollywood productions, working on multi-million dollar films such as The Devil Wears Prada, Spiderman 3, and Confessions of a Shopaholic and many others. Ojy Okpe has so far earned a good number of awards and recognition for her brilliant work in modeling and film making. Aside modeling job, motherhood, film maker, Ojy is also an executive with Arise TV and actually began working at Arise News in September , working as a Field Producer for the Networks entertainment channel Arise Ojy Okpe has been married to her husband, Austin Okpe some years ago, but the couple got separated in and both are in their separate ways.