Mia Kang (born 30 December 1988) is a British-Swiss fashion model, Muay Thai fighter, body confidence advocate, and television host based in New York City.

Training and fighting gained her respect for her body, healthy eating habits, weight and muscle.

She now advocates for women's body confidence, while continuing to model, and hosting Spy Games, an American reality competition television series.

[5][6][1] Her father is British and her mother is South Korean; they met while living in Taiwan, then moved to Hong Kong for business.

[5][8] As a teenager, Kang studied at and eventually graduated from the international Island School in Hong Kong,[9][10] but never felt like she fit in.

[5] Kang grew up bullied and overweight, though a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover with model Tyra Banks hung on her wall.

[9][10] One of her first jobs was a Levi's campaign, and she remembers being surprised seeing her picture in shops in Times Square.

[10] After graduating high school, Kang modeled abroad, in Tokyo, Singapore, Milan, and London.

She was on the path to becoming a derivatives consultant in her mid-20s, when she realized she felt stifled and decided to try the modeling profession one more time.

[12] Kang was taking a 10-day holiday from modeling there in 2016, when she noticed young fighters from a local gym training in the combat sport Muay Thai by the side of the road, and asked if she could try it; initially just to help her lose more of the weight that she was told she needed to.

[16][26] She took a month long training with legendary Muay Thai fighter Saenchai to prepare for her fight.

[17][34][35][36][37][38] Kang was named a 2018 Today Show Style Hero, and the 2019 Self magazine New Year's Challenge star.

[5] She supports the Wor Watthana Muay Thai gym that helps children in an impoverished region of northeast Thailand.

In her memoir, shediscussed her very personal journey from self-loathing to self-love as she struggled with body dysmorphia and eating disorders in her youth and during her modeling career.