Manami Honjô

Hailing from Osaka she lived there and in Hyogo Prefecture until age of twenty four when she moved to Tokyo. She relocated to Kyoto for her children's upbringing in 2013. She modelled while a student and debuted on a TV serial in 1993. She began modelling swimsuits in 1995 and became a gravure model next. She was also on TV in commercials for the likes of NTT and Coca Cola in that year. She continued to endorse corporate material like Pocky and Megmilk and others for years. She is also an essayist and also works in radio as of 2017. She has been married to magazine editor Sawada Yasuhiko since 2002 and has a daughter born on 29.12.2006 and a son born 08.03.2013. He is eighteen years her senior and worked at Magazine House.