A native of Yala, Cross River State, Bissong started her modelling career when she was a child. She attended Nigerian Navy Primary school and Nigerian Navy Secondary school, both in Navy Town, Lagos, the latter she completed at the age of fourteen. She would later enroll as a student of the University of Calabar where she studied Economics.[3]
Bissong worked as a model in Nigeria before moving to America, where she signed up with another modeling agency whilst studying Accounting at the City University of New York.[which?] In an interview with The Vanguard in 2008, Bissong criticised discrimination against black models in the American fashion industry, and admitted she was facing strong competition.[3] Upon her return to Nigeria, she opened a model management company in a bid to restore professionalism in the industry.[6][7]
Television
Since returning to her home country in 2009, Bissong has worked in television, presenting The Peak Talent Hunt Show,[1][8] and Africa Awakes on DSTV. As an actress, Bissong was in the Ghanaian movie Be My Guest with Nadia Buari and Chris Attoh,[6] and is currently starring in the African adaptation of Desperate Housewives as stay-at-home mother Funke Lawal loosely based on Lynette Scavo in the original series.[9]
