Meet Ayla Sham Yuet, Chingmy Yau’s fashionista daughter: her mum is a Hong Kong actress and her dad a millionaire tycoon, she walked the runway at London Fashion Week … and might debut in Korea
- Born to famous parents – Hong Kong actress Chingmy Yau and fashion tycoon Sham Kar-wai – Ayla Sham Yuet knows a thing or two about the showbiz world, from walking runways to gracing magazine covers
- The 21-year-old model may have signed with a Korean agency and, unlike certain other ‘nepotism babies’, has openly appreciated her parents’ help, even calling her mum her ‘goddess’
Actress Chingmy Yau was one of the most well-known actresses in Hong Kong in the 1990s. Known for her appeal in films such as Naked Killer and I’m Your Birthday Cake!, she was nominated three times for best actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
After splitting from director Wong Jing in 1999, Yau married millionaire tycoon Sham Kar-wai, and the couple has been in the limelight since. Today, the pair has three daughters – Sham Yuet, Sham Yat and Sham Chen.
So apart from her modelling career, what else do we know about her?
A budding fashionista
Born in 2001, Sham is not only good-looking, graceful and the spitting image of her mum, but she’s also no stranger to a life of luxurious trappings.
In fact, Sham already looked like a star when she was just nine years old. According to Sundaymore, although her mother did not want her daughter to enter showbiz too early, Yau still managed to get Sham a few charity photo shoots so that she could be exposed to the fashion industry from a young age.