Ili Cheng

Biography

Ili Cheng (Chinese: 鄭家純; born Cheng Chia-chen, 鄭佳甄; 31 August 1993), nicknamed Jipai Mei (雞排妹; lit. 'chicken cutlet girl'), is a Taiwanese internet celebrity and model, who has appeared in television programmes, feature films, videos and a music EP. She came to fame in January 2012 when her promotional video for a fried chicken cutlet restaurant went viral. Thereafter she became an internet celebrity.

== Early life == Her parents divorced when she was seven. Her father, being much richer than her mother, gained custody of her and her younger brother, but they did not live with their father. Instead, they lived together with his father's ex-wife and four older half-siblings on his father's side. Her mother died of stomach cancer when she was 17. She changed her name to Cheng Chia-chun (鄭家純) in 2013.

== Career == She started working as a part-time model in mid-July 2011. In 2012, she was featured in a promotional video, which became viral, for a chicken cutlet shop.

== Political views ==

Cheng actively engages in political discussion covering a wide range of issues. She has been supporting anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan since 2013. She joined the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014. She supports Hong Kong democracy movements.

== Personal life == On 2 November 2022, Cheng married with a Japanese pediatrician named Akira.

== Works ==

=== Photo albums === 15 August 2012 18 Sui De Liwu ISBN 9789868003583 (in Chinese) 26 February 2013 The gift of 18th–Lili Shashin-shū ISBN 9784845844036 (in Japanese) 22 July 2015 Wo Shi Zheng Jiachun