Extended Bio for Novella Nikita
San Francisco, CA
I was born and raised in San Jose, CA, and I currently live in San Francisco. I love to travel, and I've been to four- fifths of the United States, as well as Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and China. I've also been lucky enough to visit the countries that my parents were born in, the Philippines and Canada. I am very interested in learning about my diverse roots, and I hope to someday become fluent in Tagalog. I love that modeling is a job that requires and allows me to travel. I enjoy discovering how people live in other places.
My competitive spirit, commitment and ambition in modeling stems from the fact that I have been a competitive athlete my whole life. I've been playing ice hockey for fifteen years. I have been to the Women's Ice Hockey Nationals three times, and I have been one of the select few chosen for the National Olympic Training Camp in Lake Placid, NY, twice, where I was ranked among the top female ice hockey players in the nation. I played co-ed travel ice hockey until I was nineteen, so I was always one of the boys. I'm still a tomboy at heart, and I play men's adult league ice hockey when I'm not too busy with work, travel or modeling.
I have always been really into cars. When I was younger I used to spend tons of time looking at cars online or in magazines, wishing that I had the money to collect them. I'm a big reader and I loved to look at car magazines and cut out the pictures of the rides that I wanted. I always dreamed of having an NSX, a Maserati or a Lamborghini Murcielago. Right now, I drive a 1990 Nissan 300zx with exhaust, a body kit, spoiler, tint, wheels, custom leather seats, and rare pale gold original paint. I also have a rare white collector's 1994 Honda Civic Si. I have had my share of "off- the- track" racing, but someday soon I want to learn how to drift, road race, or drag race.
I got into modeling five years ago, when some of my close racer friends told me that I should become an import model. They told me that my petite size and mixed asian ethnic background would be considered ideal for the import scene. I wasn't sure if I believed them, because I had always been a sporty girl and I had never thought of myself as the modeling type. They encouraged me to create modeling sites on onemodelplace.com and onlineshowoff.com (which is now hincity.com). Everything took off from there. I got my first spokesmodeling gig through onemodelplace.com. A model recruiter from L.A. saw my online profile and called me to offer me a job working at the myspace tent at the Mountain Dew Action Sports Tour. I am a very social person, and I love meeting new people and experiencing new things. The job was a perfect fit. I had a great experience and the pay rate was so much better than anything I had ever done before. At that point I decided that spokesmodeling was what I wanted to do.
Modeling has given me a lot of great opportunities, and I've gotten to do a lot of fun things, like working at exciting events and being on television, internet, and radio. Currently, I am proud to be a 2009 West Coast Official Spokesmodel for the Redline Time Attack Track Series, as well as the Official NorCal Celica Model. In 2008 I was an Official HIN Girl and HIN Correspondent. I have worked at everything from NASCAR events to various tradeshows, expos, and extreme sports events, and I was featured as the Official Mountain Dew Trophy Girl on the National Championship of Gaming, which was broadcast on Comcast the summer of 2006 and re- broadcast the summer of 2007. I've also been lucky to be featured in various magazines and print advertisements, both nationwide and international, including DSport, Modified Magazine, Car Craft Magazine, Xplosive Magazine, Hot Machine Weekly (Hong Kong), Gal's Paradise (Japan), and many others! I hope to someday honor my Filipino roots by being featured on the cover of a magazine in my father's country of birth, like Maxim Philippines or FHM Philippines. I also have quite a bit of acting, dancing, and television and video- hosting experience, so I would welcome any future opportunities in those fields. I hope that I will keep getting these fun and interesting opportunities as I go further in my career. I'm a bold and spontaneous person who's down for anything, and I'm looking forward to whatever comes my way!
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