[6] According to her official profile, Son was born in Saitama, Japan with Chinese nationality,[7] however she herself has stated on multiple occasions that she was born in Dalian, China and lived there until she was 5 years old before immigrating to Niigata and growing up in Saitama.
[10] That same year she went to Shanghai to attend the Shanghai World Expo, specifically its event promoting the gyaru culture and various gyaru-brands, as a representative of the gyaru scene along with eight other Japanese models related to the Popteen magazine.
[15] She also began appearing on MTV Japan's Shibuhara Girls in January 2011[16] as one of its four regulars.
[17] A reality TV series,[18] Shibuhara Girls has reported some daily aspects of her modeling life such as her visits to South Korea where she was featured in the Maps street fashion magazine,[19] the Men's Health magazine's "Hot Icon of the Month" monthly special editorial,[20] and several newspapers.
[25] Kyo, who became a mother of a boy in October 2009, is also a model best known for appearing in popular gyaru-mama magazine "I Love Mama".