Carolyn Higar

Posted July 10, 20213 yr

Carilyn Higar is a former international fashion model from that worked professionally during the 80s & 90s and was represented by Elite (Chicago), Prestige (New York) and in Japan where she did a lot of her work and went on to become quite the celebrity there!

"Carolyn Kawasaki, better known in Japan as Caiya, is an American gaijin tarento, i.e. a foreign celebrity active in Japan. Kawasaki was active as a model in the 1980s working in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In 1990, she married Mayo Kawasaki, a Japanese celebrity." -Excerpt from Google

"Carolyn Kawasaki (born May 25, 1962 in Chicago as Carolyn Jo Higar), better known in Japan as Caiya (カイヤ, Kaiya), is an American gaijin tarento,^[1] i.e. a foreign celebrity active in Japan. Kawasaki was active as a model in the 1980s working in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In 1990, she married Mayo Kawasaki,^[2] a Japanese celebrity. Kawasaki became famous on Japanese television by playing off the stereotypical American woman from the Japanese point of view as loud, domineering and materialistic. She has appeared in television shows such as Waratte Iitomo and Ninja Warrior among others."-Excerpt from Wikipedia