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{{Short description|Fashion model and jazz musician}}
{{Distinguish|Connie Chan Po-chu}}
{{BLP one source|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Connie Chiu
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
| birth_place = [[British Hong Kong]]
| spouse =
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}
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| website = [http://www.conniechiu.com/ ConnieChiu.com]
}}

'''Connie Chiu''' (born 1969) is a [[Model (person)|fashion model]] and jazz musician known for being the world's first fashion model with [[Albinism in humans|albinism]].<ref name=SCMP>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2117293/worlds-first-albino-model-connie-chiu-growing-kowloon-and|title=World's first albino model Connie Chiu on growing up in Kowloon and diversity on the catwalk|last=Wilson|first=David|date=2017-10-30|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2019-01-30}}</ref>

Chiu was born in [[British Hong Kong]] and grew up in [[Kowloon]].<ref name=SCMP /> The congenital absence of pigmentation in her skin and hair, makes them sensitive to the sun. To avoid Chiu's exposure to Hong Kong's intensive sun, her family moved to [[Sweden]] when she was seven years old.<ref name=SCMP />

Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling at age 21, when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows.<ref name=SCMP /> After sending a black-and-white photograph to French fashion designer [[Jean-Paul Gaultier]], he invited her to model at his autumn/winter 1994 show.<ref name=SCMP /> At age 25, Chiu began modeling for [[fashion photographer]]s such as [[Terry Richardson]], [[Paul Burley]], [[Heidi Niemala]] and [[Morten Smidt]].<ref name=SCMP /> Chiu later studied [[journalism]].

Chiu starred in the music video for the single "Stalker" by [[Recoil (band)|Recoil]], the solo project of [[Depeche Mode]] member [[Alan Wilder]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.conniechiu.com/ Connie Chiu official website]
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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People with albinism]]
[[Category:Hong Kong female models]]
[[Category:Swedish female models]]
[[Category:Chinese female models]]
[[Category:Immigrants to Sweden]]
[[Category:Hong Kong emigrants]]

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