Some time ago, due to the suspected insult to China in the propaganda poster of a domestic brand, many small-eyed models were affected.
The earliest generation of supermodel Lu Yan was not spared, and she was occupied by bad comments in the comment area of the social platform.
Lü Yan's appearance does not conform to traditional Chinese aesthetics, so her fame has become more legendary and controversial.
Lü Yan's fame stems from a poster titled "Rouge Marry".
Freckles makeup, Dan phoenix eyes, willow leaf eyebrows, giving people a unique visual shock.
Onlookers dismissed it, thinking it was a freckle advertisement for a beauty salon,
I didn't think that Lu Yan in the photo really stood on the stage of the fashion circle.
This contrasting aesthetic did not make everyone shine, but there was a lot of discussion, and Lü Yan also won the title of "China's first ugly model".
This title did not limit her development, although the response in the domestic market was very poor, but she was eventually excavated by a French modeling agency.
Throwing an olive branch to her, Lu Yan shined on the international supermodel stage and became an international supermodel that attracted everyone's attention.
After the fame and fortune, Lu Yan married into the French giants, and later established her own brand, sitting on countless assets.
In fact, before becoming famous, Lu Yan was still an unremarkable rural girl.
The great contrast of identity and the success of her career make her life history more exciting and legendary.
So, today we will talk about Lu Yan's counterattack road.
01
Lü Yan, born in 1981 in De'an, Jiangxi, lives in a fluorite mining area.
Her parents were ordinary people, without a strong background and family wealth,
He just runs a small barbershop and earns almost $600 a month.
At that age when the aesthetics were not awakened, Lu Yan and other friends crossed the mountains and mountains, went down the river to catch fish, and went to the game hall to play games.
"Nobody looks at me like a girl."
As she grew older, the children had the most basic sense of aesthetics and began to gradually alienate her.
In the face of the exclusion of her friends, Lu Yan was very sad.
But her mother told her: "It is a blessing to suffer a loss." ”
The child is always very forgetful, and under the guidance of the Octogenarian father, she quickly forgets the unpleasantness.
Later, when her younger siblings were born, Lü Yan regarded taking care of her younger siblings as a day's pleasure.
Soft and sticky baby, full of milky smell,
Perhaps because of the care of day and night, Lu Yan has a very good relationship with her younger siblings, and she often leaves delicious things to her younger siblings.
She didn't have a pretty face, but she was taller than her peers.
When she was in middle school, Lu Yan's height had reached 178cm.
In that era when 160m was considered tall, her height of 178cm made her stand out among the girls.
From childhood, her facial anxiety made her dare not face the direct eyes of others.
Strange eyes and whispered arguments made her inferior, and this inferiority accumulated into her bones over the years.
So she bent her back and lowered her head.
As high as possible to cater to the masses, she hid herself.
Her blind retreat, evasion did not allow her to live a normal life, on the contrary, because of the long period of rickety,
Lü Yan became hunched over, and her unoprotective appearance and distorted posture made her laugh at all.
At this time, Lu Yan also woke up, and she knew that even if she buried her head in the ground, she would not avoid being ridiculed.
In order to create a perfect shape, Lu Yan decided to practice ballet.
Originally, the tutoring class did not want Lü Yan, as far as Lü Yan's appearance and height were concerned, it was extremely abrupt in ballet.
It is also a matter of reason that the model class next door to the ballet is short of people to form a team.
The arrival of Lu Yan can be said to have solved the urgent need.
According to the rules of the model competition, a region must send 5 models to the competition, but the model class has only 4 people in total.
So the teacher of the tutoring class asked her to make up the numbers, and after a few days of learning the shape and the steps of a period of time,
Lü Yan followed her teacher to Beijing, and at first Lü Yan did not have any hope of promotion, and several of her peers did not take her seriously.
But fate is so dramatic, only Lu Yan in the group has passed the first test.
Although she was eventually eliminated, Lu Yan gained something more important than the ranking, that is, she increased her insight.
The girl who entered the big city for the first time was attracted by the prosperity in front of her, so she decided that she wanted to stay here.
In this way, Lü Yan began a period of north drifting journey.
The city of Beijing has too many resources and talents, and the competition in each industry is also particularly fierce.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the city with the most serious inner volume, in the modeling industry where beautiful women are like clouds,
Lu Yan's unoptimistic appearance has repeatedly frustrated her job search, but she is tenacious.
After repeated rejections, she did not choose to leave the city, she desperately wanted to put down roots here,
It wasn't until two months later that it was possible to turn over.
The person who brought this opportunity was makeup artist Li Dongtian.
Li Dongtian is extremely famous in China, and his makeup skills are fascinating, and he is known as the "godfather of makeup" by insiders.
The two met on July 23, 1999, when Lu Yan went to the Modern Clothing Magazine for an interview.
After meeting with photographer Feng Hai, Feng Hai was blunt:
"Lu Yan, you have a supermodel face."
Hearing this, Lu Yan did not have a great reaction, she laughed self-deprecatingly, thinking that Feng Hai was joking.
Half an hour later, Li Dongtian arrived late and was embarrassed to greet the others.
At the first sight of Lü Yan, Li Dongtian's eyes lit up and he said:
"Lu Yan, you are really beautiful."
At this time, Lu Yan couldn't calm down at all, thinking that she had encountered a gang of scammers.
Unexpectedly, the two opened their mouths again:
"I want to take a picture of you as a cover poster."
That's the poster mentioned at the beginning.
This poster doesn't have heavy makeup or elaborate ornate styling.
A layer of baby oil and freckles on the face plus a cluster of blooming lilies make this perfect piece.
Unexpectedly, this poster is not accepted by the public, and they are complaining:
"Such a big company, is there no other model?"
The highly tense poster was posted on Wangfujing Street, attracting countless passers-by to stop and watch.
On closer inspection, the crowd still can't understand this so-called beauty, and all they care about is the time wasted by stopping.
The enthusiasm of the two predecessors made her quickly attract the attention of the outside world, and as her fame gradually increased,
All kinds of ridicule and public opinion followed, and little by little they pierced into Lu Yan's ears when she was not fully prepared.
Gossip from all directions hit Lu Yan's self-confidence in all directions, causing her to repeatedly fall into deep self-doubt.
It wasn't just her self-confidence that followed her down, but her career took a serious toll as a result.
02
Lu Yan, who has been an optimist since she was a child, did not slump for too long, and she gradually recovered in a scolding,
Despite the flurry of comments from the outside world, she still strives to move forward in her own way.
"One day I can stand on the international stage!" She gave herself a blow.
Success requires hard work talent and opportunity, and it happens that Lu Yan's opportunity will soon come,
Coinciding with the model agency of the French Metropolis coming to China for exchange and learning, two French scouts met Lu Yan who participated in the event at the hotel.
He took the initiative to come forward to talk, and after understanding it, he invited Lu Yan to go to France to be a model.
Lü Yan relied on her poor knowledge of English to understand the meaning of the other party and signed a contract with it.
In this way, in 2000, Lu Yan took her luggage, carried the 8,000 yuan she earned, and went to Paris alone.
In a foreign country, the language is not clear, she is like a floating on the surface of the water, with the turbid current has no belonging.
Differences in food and culture made it difficult for her to move forward in France.
Coupled with the difference in language, Lu Yan simply could not complete her normal life and three meals a day independently.
In order to solve the language problem, she spent a long time,
Try to communicate with the people around you every day, with a quick translation, a simple map and a watch to travel around Paris.
Because she only knew the signs of eggs, during that time, Lu Yan relied on boiled eggs every day to survive.
At the most bitter time, Lu Yan will also think about how a girl who does not know English and French can unreservedly believe in the invitation of two foreigners.
What about coming abroad alone?
"There is nothing in Beijing, the opportunities that have not been easy to come by, grasp the opportunities that may be successful, and I have nothing to lose."
Lu Yan comforted herself in this way.
At that time, she lived in a small house of 9 square meters, and when she was exhausted, she would think of her parents who were far away on the other side of the ocean.
Every phone call was her happiest and most relaxed time.
But she never reported good news or worry, and every time she could smile with tears in her eyes and say, "I'm all right." ”
The road is undoubtedly difficult, but it is also a road to success.
In the eyes of many foreigners, Lu Yan's appearance is extremely beautiful, and she will throw a kind smile at her every time she passes.
In order to be able to realize her wishes as soon as possible, Lu Yan is very able to endure hardships, and when it is cold, she can still wear a skirt and sway in the wind.
Her perseverance has moved many people around her, and gradually she has also received the attention of many brands.
Living in Paris for a long time, Lu Yan also adapted to life here, at the same time, her agent came to her and said,
Return to China to participate in the World Model Contest.
Stepping into the place of nostalgia again, Lu Yan's heart was very excited.
At first, Lu Yan did not want to represent Chinese models, she understood that her appearance was not traditional Chinese beauty.
After repeated persuasion from her agent, she agreed to go, which was the runner-up of the competition this time.
Gaining the attention of the world, this time she is no longer an ugly duckling, but a supermodel in the spotlight.
03
Since then, Lu Yan has become the darling of the fashion industry, and the international fashion magazine VOGUE has invited her.
She also appeared on Dior's runway.
At this time, she has long become the confident appearance in front of the camera, and various big-name shows have thrown olive branches to her.
No one publicly denounced her appearance anymore, and she proved herself with her own strength.
Together with Lang Ping, Jin Yuxi and others, she was selected as one of The Top Ten Fashion Figures in China, and in the following decade, she led the trend of domestic models with the first generation of Chinese supermodels.
At the same time that the modeling career was in full bloom, the showbiz circle also threw an olive branch to her.
He has participated in "The Veil", "Love Outstanding", "Love in the City" and other film and television works,
In fact, her success is inseparable from her efforts.
She is well aware of her lack of looks, so she works very hard.
Living in a high-intensity, high-pressure environment, she does not complain about the world, throwing big names, she will try to regulate her emotions every night,
The next day she continued to work full of vitality, in order to quickly recover her energy, she even practiced a skill,
That is the second sleep, when running back and forth in the major shows, she will sleep on the plane for seconds to replenish her energy, and wake up before each landing.
Adjusting your state is like a clockwork machine, not only in the modeling career.
In her modeling career, what makes her most happy is not to become popular, nor to counterattack, but that she can finally let her parents live in a big house.
Looking at the proud look on her parents' faces, she was also very satisfied.
In 2012, Lu Yan posted the news that she had a child, which caused an uproar.
Before that, Lu Yan had never mentioned her emotional situation, but the media was omnipotent.
They pulled out that Lu Yan's husband was a French tycoon, and when they first met, her husband was very cold,
Despite this, Lu Yan was still moved, and she took the initiative to ask for contact information, but the other party only gave her contact information.
After Lu Yan pursued for half a year, the man was relieved.
On the day of promising Lü Yan, the man took Lü Yan on a trip to Mexico where he could go.
Lu Yan, who married into the rich, did not choose the life of the rich wife, but founded the famous brand of COMMON MOI.
Became his own giant.
Even in the process, she experienced a lot of discouragement and setbacks, but in the end it also allowed her to successfully cross over to become a designer.
Lu Yan, who became a strong woman in her career, did not ignore the growth of her children and her family.
She and her husband take turns with the baby, and every year they will squeeze out 2 months to accompany their husband and son.
From the mining area to Paris, from the ugly duckling model to the designer of his own brand,
Her life is not nothing short of wonderful.
But at the same time, her experience has also taught many women a lesson, if they care too much about the evaluation of the outside world, they will only live in other people's worlds forever.
Looks are not the path to success, only hard work and self-reliance can live a wonderful life.