Singapore Women's Weekly

Like Mother, Like Daughter

When you’re a young model, like 19-year-old Iman Fandi, nothing is more indispensable than a good mentor. Thankfully, she didn’t have to look too far. Her mother, Wendy Jacobs, started strutting her pins on runways when she was just 13.

In a collision of fate, Wendy now dishes out modelling advice, amongst other things, to her daughter, Iman, whom she shares with Singapore’s legendary footballer, Fandi Ahmad. The couple has five children together. Iman, their only girl, is their middle child.

“I think I’ve been very blessed to have five kids with very different personalities,” says Wendy. “So every time I’m talking to one child, it’s always a different conversation,

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