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Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu (born April 19, 1990) was born in Xiamen, China and immigrated to Cebu City at the age of 3. She is the first Teen Big Winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition, After 42 days of spending summer in the Big Brother house and besting 13 teen housemates, Kim was named the Teen Big Winner with 626,562 votes or 41.4% of the total votes
Her popularity with viewers and an interest in show business led to acting assignments with fellow Pinoy Big Brother Teen housemate Gerald Anderson, who became her love team partner after Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition, their love team was named Kimerald by the fans, combining their names.
Celebrating their first year in show business which started inside the Pinoy Big Brother House, Chiu and Anderson appeared together in several shows on the ABS-CBN Network, and bagged several commercial endorsements, and appeared in their first movie, First Day High. They are currently cast on Gokada Go!, a regular performer on ASAP '07 and the recently concluded primetime television series Sana Maulit Muli, where she was once again partnered with Anderson. The series had taken the country by storm and even secured a strong hold as the country's most watched program. Continuing her rise to stardom, her second major movie, once again with Anderson is now in production under Star Cinema.
While she is popular as a teenage fashion model, Chiu has received harsh criticism as an actress and as an artist. Many express that her cute appeal fails to shield her otherwise poor and wooden acting performance, especially in her debut movie First Day High, a film panned by critics and moviegoers.
In an article published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Nestor Torre criticized Chiu's performance in First Day High, saying "She has a hard time enunciating her lines. She’s too raw and untrained a performer to realize that acting is communication, so clarity of diction and utterance is of prime importance. In a number of scenes, we wince as we listen to Kim struggling to make herself understood, and failing much of the time."
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