This model proves that when you follow your heart, you will never go wrong.

Charmagne de Guzman stumbled upon modeling at the age of 17. Her plans were simple: focus on school, do a couple of jobs a month.
 
That is, until Viktor Felarca of Rated F took Charm under his wing and introduced her to agents and agencies. “I remember going to my very first casting,” muses Charm. “It was for a fashion show for a teen magazine and, surprisingly, I got it.”

Charm started getting bookings from editorial to commercial shoots and runway shows. She would appear in two or more fashion magazine issues on the same month, and became the face of Bonia, an A-list bag line in Indonesia; and Romyda Keth, a Cambodian couture line.

But in the midst of her rising career, Charm decided to leave Manila in June 2008, backpack across Asia for six months and eventually go to Paris. “I wanted to do something else. I wanted to learn and see new things,” she shares.

By "new" things, this eventually meant traveling to exotic places like Ghana, Gabon, Kuwait and Madagascar with husband and Le Figaro economic and political writer Nathaniel Aknine.

In Manila supposedly for a vacation, Charm was booked for fashion shoots left and right as soon as she landed. Everyone missed her: from photographers to makeup artists and fashion stylists. She’s still the same simple girl we had come to love, except that she speaks and writes French now.

Top Picks

Restaurant: Cafe del Mar and Wahine in Boracay
Dish: Japanese, Thai, Indian, Filipino, Mediterranean, African---I love them all! I love to eat! =)
Bar: I don't go out and party. My version of bars is coffee shops!
Drink: Green mango shake and lassi
Getaway: Vang Vien in Laos; Chiangmai in Thailand; Madagascar at the south of France; Puerto del Sol in Coron, Palawan