Maria Ozawa was born on January 8, 1986, in Hokkaido, Japan. She was interested in working in the world of entertainment from the time she was a teenager.
Her modelling career began in 2005 with the modelling agency B-open. She was baptized as Miyabi.
She first appeared on the site shitouto-teien.com as a model and also acted in a pair of videos.
Her performance attracted the attention of several companies and, no sooner, she was signed by S1. With them, Ozawa appeared in the video “New Face- Number One Style in October, 2005.