If you're a person with a television, then you know who Poh Ling Yeow is.

First rising to stardom onMasterChef Australiain 2009, Poh has graced our TV screens ever since with her effervescent personality, handy culinary skills and high-risk, stress-inducing cooking approach.

The 50-year-old has built a very successful career for herself, but it's her personal story that many aren't yet familiar with.

She was raised in the Mormon Church. She works with both of her ex-husbands, all of whom run a business together. She's a talented artist. And she is someone who can't be boxed in.

Here's everything we know about Poh.

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Poh Ling Yeow's childhood.

Poh was born in Malaysia in 1973, spending the first nine years of her life in Kuala Lumpur. Her family then migrated to South Australia where she still lives and works today.

In Malaysia, everyone around Poh was also born with an additional Westernised name: Poh was Sharon, her mum was Christine and her father was Steven.

So when Poh arrived in Australia, she began writing on her school books 'Sharon Poh Ling Yeow'. She didn't go back to Poh until her 20s.

"I felt completely alien. I remember lining up at the tuck shop for lunch at school, and in front of me was this blonde girl with freckles and blue eyes eating a Sunny Boy ice block and thinking: I will never be that," Poh shared onABC's One Plus One.

"I felt different, but I made myself feel that way: I didn't experience much racism, it was more self-imposed and I put the little cage around myself."

Poh Ling Yeow on being raised in the Mormon Church.

For Poh's family, it was a knock on the door that converted them. So in her early teens, Poh and her family began their journey into the Mormon Church.

"Mum and I converted first. For me personally, I really loved the ideals that were presented to me. I liked the idea of the wholesomeness of the environment," she said.

Sharing her story onI'm A Celebrity...Poh said: "My family was going through some hard times and it was just kind of what we needed."

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But just like the schoolyard, Poh felt like "an alien" in the church too.

"There wasn't room for me to grow. In organised religion, there's no room for philosophical exploration and I started to find very quickly that I felt stifled."

But after travelling, it dawned on Poh that she wanted something different.

"Just that experience alone started to fracture everything that I had known. It threw everything apart. I also found a best friend, who was trans, and she opened my eyes to the world: everything became grey and not so black and white."

Poh said things between herself and her family, who are still part of the Mormon Church, became "very tense" after she decided to leave the church aged 24.

"That was probably one of the biggest things I've ever been through in my life. It caused quite a lot of family heartache."

Poh Ling Yeow's experience onMasterChef Australia.

In 2009, Poh appeared onMasterChef Australia'sfirst season, where she became a massive fan favourite and the runner-up.

Prior to the show, Poh wasn't someone who regularly cooked Asian food at home. It was only when she arrived on the set ofMasterChef Australiathat this fact became very apparent to Poh.

"I knew it worked to my advantage, to play to what I looked like: I was an easy character to identify in the sea of contestants who are grappling to get air time: 'Okay, I'll be the Asian girl cooking Asian food'."

But from the experience, Poh says she was able to begin learning about her family's recipes and cultural dishes she had loved throughout her childhood. "Food was the one thing that I felt I had a connection to my culture. There's something about food that is very emotional and spiritual for me: those recipes have their own stories and travelled eons to get to me," she said onABC's One Plus One.