Vanessa Peh Ting Ting (born 16 December 1994) is a

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actress, model, entrepreneur, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Singapore World 2018 on 14 September 2018. She represented

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at the

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pageant and advanced to the Top 30 of

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Grand Final.

Personal life

Vanessa was raised in

. Her father and mother are Chinese. She is an

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, and

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by profession. She has studied in

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and majored in Medicinal

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and interned at

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, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB). She is multilingual with the ability to speak English, Mandarin, French, and

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. She was also a ballet student in the

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in London and a piano student, graduating with distinctions from

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Pageantry

Miss Singapore World 2018

Vanessa is the winner of Miss World Singapore 2018. She was crowned as Miss Singapore World 2018 pageant at

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on 14 September 2018. In addition to the crown, she also won two subsidiary awards in the Miss World Singapore competition: * Miss Personality * Miss Beautiful Hair

Miss World 2018

Peh represented

pageant in Sanya, China where she made history by advancing to the Top 30 of

Grand Final. Peh was the winner among of Group 14 in the Head-to-Head Challenge. During the Final round of Group 7 in the Head-to-Head Challenge, she won Nepal, which placed

in Top 30 among 118 contestants of Miss World 2018.

Career

Modelling In 2017, Vanessa started her modelling career. She has done various commercials and campaigns for brands including but not limited to

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Singapore,

Meiji Seika , formerly is a Japanese pharmaceutical company. It is currently a subsidiary of Meiji Holdings and a Japanese leader in the area of infectious disease with 18% market share. It markets treatments for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ...

Singapore, Anlene,

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Singapore, and Philosophy (brand).

Filmography

Television

English Series

Chinese Series

References

External links

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