Aive is a Japanese idol

Japanese idol

In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...

. A half Bangladeshi, she does glamour modeling as a gravure idol.

Early

She was born in Kanagawa

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

 to a Bangladeshi father and a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 mother. After a brief stint of fashion modeling for fashion magazines including Cawaii!

Cawaii!

Cawaii! is a fashion magazine published in Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Thailand, and previously in Japan.Launched as a monthly gal fashion magazine targeted at women in their teens in Japan in March 1996, Cawaii! grew to be one of Japan's major gal magazines, and spawned its two sister...

and Pinky

PINKY (magazine)

Pinky was a Japanese fashion magazine published by Shueisha.Launched in 2004 as a sister magazine of Seventeen, Pinky was targeted at teenagers and young women in their early 20s or early 30s...

, she began glamour modeling when she was a highschool girl.

Career

Starting as a gravure idol on webzines such as Weekly Playboy Mobile

Weekly Playboy

also known as or WPB is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966.This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.-People in...

and Cellphone Young Magazine

Young Magazine

is a Japanese manga magazine published weekly by Kodansha. The magazine was started on June 23, 1980 and is targeted at adult males . It is also known as Young or YM. It goes on sale Monday every week...

, Aive released her first DVD MSG: Mix School Girl in 2008, where she dressed in various costumes such as school uniform

Japanese school uniform

Japan introduced school uniforms in the late 19th century. Today, school uniforms are common in many of the Japanese public and private school systems. The Japanese word for this type of uniform is .-Usage:...

s and swimsuit

Swimsuit

A swimsuit, bathing suit, or swimming costume is an item of clothing designed to be worn by men, women or children while they are engaging in a water-based activity or water sports, such as swimming, water polo, diving, surfing, water skiing, or during activities in the sun, such as sun bathing.A...

s. She released her second DVD Aiveam in 2009 and third DVD shot in Okinawa, Lovely Aive, in the same year.

She first appeared on television in May 2009 in TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

–NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

's weekly variety show

Variety show

A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...

 Itsuzai Second. She had appeared in a total of 17 episodes of the show, in which she had co-starred with Ikki Sawamura

Ikki Sawamura

is a Japanese model, film and television actor, and television presenter signed to Ken-On.-Biography:Ikki Sawamura was born in Kagoshima in 1967. After graduating from the local high school, he moved to Tokyo and started his career as a fashion model. In 1996, Sawamura debut in a TV drama Matsuda...

, Satomi'

SATOMI'

SATOMI is a Japanese pop singer. She also goes under the names Satomi and Satton. In 2003, she began vocal and dance lessons simultaneously. She had her first live performance at 15 at the MIDEM 2005 International Music Conference where she was discovered by a sports magazine...

, Takeshi Tsuruno

Takeshi Tsuruno

is a Japanese actor, tarento, and musician, originally from Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for his roles as Shin Asuka/Ultraman Dyna in Ultraman Dyna and as the leader of the musical units and...

, Ryotaro Okiayu

Ryotaro Okiayu

is a Japanese voice actor, who was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, and raised in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. He has been active since 1989, and is currently affiliated with Aoni Production....

, Masaru Hamaguchi

Masaru Hamaguchi

is a Japanese comedian and actor. People have affectionately given him nicknames i.e. Gucchyon, Hamaguchyon, Hamaguche, Masaru-san, Massaru, etc.- Profile :Together with his screen partner, Shinya Arino, Hamaguchi is part of the comic duo, Yoiko....

, Ken Horiuchi

Neptune (Owarai)

is a three-man Japanese conte group consisting of two boke, , and - usually referred to as , and one tsukkomi, . Their trio name comes from the Kinnikuman character, Neptuneman.-History:...

, Teppei Arita

Cream Stew (comedy duo)

Cream Stew is the name of a Japanese comedy duo, Japanese comedy kombi consisting of two comedians, Shinya Ueda and Teppei Arita . Originally from Kumamoto city, the pair first met in high school when Arita and Ueda found a common interest in pro wrestling...

 among others, by April 2010.

After highschool she took a temporary retirement from modeling, and restarted her full-time performing career in June 2011.

Personal

"Aive" is her real name, which means "fun", "entertaining" or "interesting" in some language other than Japanese, possibly in Bangladeshi

Languages of Bangladesh

Although there are 38 different languages of Bangladesh, Bengali is by far the most widely spoken language in the country – an estimated 98% of the population can speak it, and it enjoys the status of official language and the lingua franca of the nation. Arabic text is widely used in education...

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External

• Official website
• Official blog powered by Ameba
• Official Twitter
• "Search the Bikini Princess! : Aive", March 2009, Weekly Playboy Mobile
  Weekly Playboy
  also known as or WPB is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966.This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.-People in...