Aliya Anthes

James Lee
4 min readJul 24, 2021

I’m from Pittsburgh, PA

What makes me different as a person is the eclectic background I grew up in. I was born in Bangladesh and adopted as a baby. My parents were american international school teachers so I grew up in five different countries and traveled the world. I lived in Bangladesh (my birth country) for four years then we moved to Malaysia. We lived in Malaysia for four years then moved to India when I was seven years old. We lived in India for three years until I was ten, then we moved to Morocco. Morocco was where I spent most of my growing up years. We lived there for six years. I spent fifth grade through tenth grade in Rabat, Morocco before we moved to Guangzhou, China for my last two years of High school. After I graduated from high school I went to college to become a respiratory therapist. I’ve been working at the same hospital for thirteen years.

I believe that my diverse background and having a strong work ethic will help me in the modeling world. Working twelve hour shifts in a hospital has taught me strength, patience, and…

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James Lee

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