Lindy Rama-Ellis (née Rama, previously Klim) is an Australian-Indonesian model and entrepreneur.

Early life

Rama-Ellis' mother, Frances Parker, was a school teacher in

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when she took a cheap holiday to

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where she met Anak Agung Oka Rama. Rama-Ellis was born a Balinese princess and grew up in the palace before moving to Tasmania with her mother after her parents divorced when she was three. Rama-Ellis' uncle, Ida Cokorde Pamecutan XI, was the king of Denpasar and she stated that she didn't know she was part of the royal family because she didn't have much contact with her dad after the divorce. Des, her maternal grandfather became like her father in Australia and often took her fishing and camping. Her stepfather Mike, came into her life when she was five and would often pick her up from dance lessons and school.

Career

At the age of 20, Rama-Ellis began modeling and walked in high-end fashion shows like Gucci and Chanel. She attended New York fashion week in 2008 representing top Australian designer,

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. Early in her career Rama-Ellis stated that she had a bad body image and dropped down to weigh just 42 kilograms at her lowest. She is a regular attendee of both Sydney and Melbourne fashion weeks and has been an ambassador for "La Mer" and designed a collection with brand "Mercer + Reid". Rama-Ellis and Klim co-owned "Milk & Co" skin care. What started out as a men's range of products, Rama-Elis expanded the line to include a range for children. In 2017, Rama-Ellis launched a fashion label named "Rama Voyage". In 2020, Rama-Ellis launched "Fig Femme", a wellness brand that encourages open and honest self-care by selling items such as a vulva mask.

Personal life

At 16, Rama-Ellis started a relationship with musician and future contestant on The Voice, Cam Tapp who was 26 when they met. The couple were together for ten years and lived in South London together for four years whilst Tapp pursued his career in music. After the 2004 Athens Olympics, Rama-Ellis was a model for

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when she met her future husband, Olympic swimmer

Michael Klim Michael George Klim, OAM (born 13 August 1977) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s. He is known as the creator of straight-arm freestyle. Early years Klim was ...

on the catwalk. She credits her relationship with Klim for teaching her how to be confident. Rama-Ellis married Michael Klim in 2006 and divorced in 2016. The couple have two daughters and a son together and spent much of their relationship living between Bali and Melbourne. Two years after her divorce from Klim in August 2018, Rama-Ellis remarried with British property developer Adam Ellis and the pair welcomed a daughter in December 2017. The couple married in 2018. In 2024, the pair separated. Her father Oka Rama died of heart problems a few weeks after the birth of Rama-Ellis' first child. Rama-Ellis has lent supports to charities including Brainwave, Sids, Bali Orphanage, Sumba Foundation and the Witchery (Silver Diary) Ovarian Cancer Campaign. In 2020, Rama-Ellis and her family suffered from

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