Adesuwa Thongpond Pariyasapat Aighewi is an American fashion model and filmmaker. In 2018, she was chosen as the runner up for "Breakout Star of the Year" by models.com. As of January 2019, Aighewi ranks as one of the "Top 50" models by models.com.

Early life

Adesuwa Aighewi was born in Minnesota to a Thai-born Chinese mother and a Nigerian father. Before modeling she was a chemistry student at the

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where she started attending at age 15. She once interned for

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. As her parents are environmental scientists, she moved frequently and spent half of her childhood in Nigeria.

Career

Aighewi was discovered on the campus of the

. She has walked for Alexander Wang,

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among others. She has appeared in advertisements for

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, and

. Adesuwa's break out video "Spring in Harlem" debuted on LOVE.com and was written up by Forbes.

Videography

References

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