Christ Betros Interviews Japanese talent/model Marie

Marie has been getting a lot of coverage this year and Chris Betros of Metropolis Magazine/JapanToday.com recently interviewed the talent (in English) recently.  Here is an excerpt from Chris interview:

It’s the end of a busy day for Marie. The 21-year-old model and TV personality has just finished recording a two-hour entertainment program for cable TV. It’s 9 p.m., but Marie still looks fresh and cheerful as she sits down for an interview, a little surprised that an English publication is interested in doing a feature on her.

Born to a Japanese mother and French-Canadian father, Marie starts off in hesitant English, but picks up the pace as we proceed. “I hardly use English,” she says. “I was born in Tokyo and grew up only speaking Japanese. I went to Melbourne when I was 13 or 14 and spent a year there but couldn’t communicate much at all. It wasn’t until I went to high school in Milwaukee that I started to get better at English.”

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