Her father is from Portugal and her mother is from Singapore from the Chinese diaspora. Gomes was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, the baby of a family that includes two older sisters, an older brother, a Portuguese father, and a Chinese mother. Gomes' mother sent her to finishing school at the age of 13. It was there that she appeared on the hit TV show Bush Patrol which lead to a modeling contest and the start of a successful career. She has appeared in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, American Glamour, Italian GQ and Victoria’s Secret catalogue ,[citation needed] and has modeled for DKNY Jeans, Garnier, Levi's, Motorola, Urban Outfitters, LG Electronics and Victoria's Secret, and appeared on the cover of Biba. She signed with Estee Lauder as the face of Diddy's Unforgivable fragrance. As of 2007, she lives in NYC.
In 2008, Gomes appeared in advertisements for Hyundai and LG Cyon Bikini Phone. For promotional use, she played baseball with the Korean baseball team LG Twins which led to celebrity-status in South Korea. In 2009, her reality tv-show "My name is Jessica Gomes" was launched on the Korean television network On Style owned by On-Media. After Gomes became the face of Enprani Cosmetics, they went on launching a new lipgloss named Gomes Pink. Her latest ventures are working on a Yoga-video entitled Body Art and a dancing debut in the Korean version of Dancing with the Stars on June 10
