[3] Takahashi was born in Ōtsu, Shiga[4] to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father.

[5] She has a younger sister, Yu Takahashi, who is also a model and actress, and a brother, Yuji, who is a footballer.

[6][7] She began modeling in August 2003 after winning the "Yokohama Shonan Audition 2003" beauty contest, and professionally in April 2004 when she signed a contract with CanCam.

Her exclusive modeling contract for CanCam ended in April 2012,[24] and subsequently appeared in magazines such as Classy, Oggi, and Gina.

[26] Takahashi portrayed Yumi Komagata in the film Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, released in 2014.