Biography
Chen was born under the name of Vivian Chen Wai-man on 13 September 1973 in Hong Kong. She attended Canadian Academy International School in Kobe, Japan, for high school and then Parsons The New School for Design in New York, where she studied graphic art.
Chen speaks fluent Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and English. She has an elder sister and a younger brother, singer Victor Chen Si-hon.
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