Before you knew her as the multi-hyphenate she is today – fitness entrepreneur, host, television presenter, and wife of Henry Golding – Liv Lo Golding was a fashion model. For 10 years of her life, she jetted in and out of Asia’s fashion capitols, and appeared in magazine editorials, commercials, and runway shows. However, the Italian-Taiwanese beauty realised early on that there was more to life than obsessing over whether she could fit into the next brand’s sample-sized clothing.
Interestingly, it was the fashion world and her previous jet-setting life that planted the first seed of environmentalism in Liv.
“Having traipsed around Asia’s biggest cities my whole life, I found that people – myself included – were getting out of touch with themselves and each other,” says the 34-year-old yoga enthusiast.
“I realised that this was a symptom, a sickness that resulted in us being disconnected as humans and it was very unhealthy. So I thought about what we shared that kept us alive – and it’s the natural world. We literally can’t survive as a human race if we didn’t have nature, which provides us with clean air to breathe, water to drink and food grown from earth’s soil.”
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That realisation had far-reaching impact for Liv whose post-modelling founded her own fitness program, FitSphere, to allow her to get back to nature and herself. FitSphere combines light weights with yoga for a quick workout that builds strong, lean bodies. It also pays specific attention to breath work, which Liv says gives her life.
This story is from the April 2020 edition of The Singapore Women's Weekly.
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