First Asian model on Victoria's Secret runway

[Blue_Tires]

(CNN) -- Four years ago Liu Wen entered a modeling contest in China to win a computer to use for school. Little did she know it would lead her to the Victoria's Secret runway in New York.

Wen, who will appear in the Victoria's Secret fashion show airing Tuesday on CBS, will be the first Victoria's Secret model of Asian descent to walk the catwalk, the company said.

"I was surprised when my agent told me," Wen said hours before she was set to walk the runway. She seemed only slightly overwhelmed: clad in a pink robe, one technician assigned to her fingernails, another to her toenails and another adding extensions to her already long black hair. "I asked my agent if she was joking. I didn't think an Asian girl would get this job."

Victoria's Secret plucked Wen, 21, out of a regular model casting call.

"Liu Wen is a beautiful woman. She has a strong and energetic presence on the runway. She looked absolutely stunning in our fashion show," said the show's executive producer, Monica Mitro.

At 5-foot-10, Wen said she towered over her classmates in China.

The newest addition to the Victoria's Secret family was born in Yongzhou in China's Hunan province in 1988, the daughter of an interior designer dad and a stay-at-home mom.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/25/victorias.secret.model/index.html?eref=ew

[Blue_Tires]

1. night kick

[EndersDame]

2. She is very beautiful I like this pic of her

[Iggo]

3. Time for hot chicks in nasty underwear again?

Sing it with me, folks: It's the most...wonderful time...of the year!

[AsahinaKimi]

4. wow

She is very pretty!

[NewJeffCT]

5. She's cute

I wonder how popular she is in China?