The Met Gala is an American fashion event that takes place every May at a museum in New York. This year, due to the emergence of Gu Ailing, the Chinese media paid special attention to this fashion show.
But as early as 2015, Met Gala set off a China fever, because the theme of that year was: "China: Mirror Flower Water Moon." In order to fit the theme of Chinese culture, the co-chair of that year specially invited Deng Wendi.
It can be seen that Deng Wendi in the upper class of the United States is undoubtedly the first representative of Chinese women.
This woman has no superior appearance and no outstanding background, but her charm has dumped Murdoch, the world's richest man. Murdoch spent $1.7 billion to marry Wendi Deng home, and the 14 years that the two walked hand in hand were also the shining years when she made friends in European and American social circles.
If Deng Wendi has any secret weapon of success in life, it must be her "mixed male and female" temperament.
01, not willing to be ordinary courage
Deng Wendi is a Xuzhou girl from a family that values sons over daughters but attaches great importance to education.
Everyone has their own personality background, Deng Wendi's basic personality is self-confidence and bravery, with her strong goal, it is an enterprising spirit that is not willing to be mediocre.
Deng Wendi also has two older sisters in the family, all three of whom are excellent in their studies, and both sisters have successfully become engineers.
Under this premise, Deng Wendi chose to study medicine because he could better form a career complementary with his sisters and take care of his parents.
This personality of considering the overall situation has also become Deng Wendi's invincible weapon.
In 1984, Deng Wendi was successfully admitted to Guangzhou Medical College. In the eyes of others, a clear road full of light has begun for her. But Deng Wendi silently learned English because of the American dream in his heart.
When you have a clear goal, the doors of the world open to you.
In 1987, Wendi Deng met his first noble couple, Jake Cherry and Mrs. Cherry. Wendi Deng's personality is very cheerful and good at socializing, which makes the Cherry couple in the oriental environment shine.
For Mrs. Cherry, who had been transferred to China for her husband's work, she was thrilled to meet Wendi Deng, who was as enthusiastic as an American girl, in a very different environment.
Therefore, she took out her leisure time to improve Deng Wendi's English level. In the second year, he helped Wendi Deng get a student visa to the United States.
At that time, there were many international students going to Europe and the United States, and everyone had to be busy with high tuition fees and living expenses.
The clever Wendi Deng is good at planning, and did not apply to high-quality universities abroad at the beginning, but first applied to community colleges and then transferred to comprehensive universities for graduate studies. This will not only save her a lot of money, but also help her greatly improve her enrollment success rate.
In the eyes of Cherry and his wife, both of them are very impressed, this is a young girl with high IQ, emotional intelligence, and courage quotient. They decided to fully support Wendi Deng's studies, not only providing full tuition, but also allowing her to live at home for free.
But the decision changed the fate of the Cherry family. Mr. Cherry fell in love with the young girl in his daily life, and Wendi Deng did not refuse this good feeling, but still maintained a close relationship with him.
This unusual exchange was discovered by Mrs. Cherry, and she threw the two out of her house one after another in pain. After that, Deng Wendi did not have ordinary girls at all, about age, marriage history taboos, directly married Mr. Cherry.
The sweetness of the marriage did not last long, and Wendi Deng felt that his feelings for Mr. Cherry were only attachment to the elderly. She soon fell in love with David Wolf, who was about her own age.
This makes Mr. Cherry very bitter, she hopes that Deng Wendi can live with him as the core life of his previous wife, but Deng Wendi is a trapped bird, will not leave her enterprising spirit in the family kitchen, and the social field is where her enthusiasm is spilled.
In just four months, Wendi Deng made the marriage a reality, and she began living with David Wolf.
But at the same time, Wendi Deng and Cherry's legal marriage successfully lasted for another two years and seven months. This also allowed her to meet the two-year marriage naturalization requirement and get a green card.
At that time, Deng Wendi was only 20 years old, and while empathizing with each other, he could make Mr. Cherry willingly help her get a green card to end the marriage. Whether this is her intentional plan, or the other party's deep and deliberate fulfillment, you can see the extraordinary charm of Deng Wendi.
In the future, the image of a bold and sleek social flower in Vanity Fair has been seen.
02. The ability to resist pressure has made Yale a high-quality student
In the United States, you can get into a good university is only the first step, and high tuition fees are the real obstacles.
In 1993, Wendi Deng was given the opportunity to study at Yale Graduate School of Business, and although she has been working personally, her poor savings simply cannot afford the high tuition fees.
Her then-boyfriend, David Wolf, generously paid for Wendi Deng's tuition fees, and Wendi Deng successfully enrolled in 1995.
Wendi Deng and two daughters
Among the famous schools, there are high-achieving students everywhere, and those who have poor ability to resist pressure directly lose their self-confidence under pressure. But this environment makes Deng Wendi feel like a fish, talking about life ideals with excellent people, talking about the vastness of the world, and making her feel more energetic every day.
Whenever he recalls his life at Yale, Wendi Deng always says: "The most precious wealth of a person is education, and when you have no appearance and youth, this kind of education will make you open and confident."
When Deng Wendi was studying hard, her boyfriend moved to Beijing to settle down because of his work, and this boy who loved Chinese culture fell in love with this distant northern city. He and Deng Wendi also naturally broke up because they went to different worlds.
If it is an ordinary girl, the boyfriend is in love with her motherland, I am afraid that after completing her studies, she will choose to return to China and officially settle in Beijing with her boyfriend. But for Wendi Deng, the vulnerability after the end of the relationship was only temporary, even if he later divorced Murdoch.
She seems to be born with no extra sadness and loss for her to squander, and it is the pace of her life to rush to the next destination. And her next stop is Hong Kong.
Life choices after graduation are an important crossroads, but wandering is not Wendi Deng's style, the fusion of East and West is her advantage and Hong Kong's advantage, and this is the stage she chose.
For Wendi Deng, socializing is unlimited, and the neighbors on the plane can also talk from strangers to each other. And her neighbor happened to be a successful person, Bruce Churchill. The well-dressed man is the executive of Hong Kong satellite TELEVISION.
The emergence of this big guy is undoubtedly a windfall for Deng Wendi, and the news media industry is one of her favorite career stages.
The communication skills and confident charm shown by Wendi Deng also made Bruce feel happy, and he was willing to give the graduate of the famous school an internship opportunity.
This opportunity is an important life node for Deng Wendi, and the hard work he has made in learning for more than ten years, the uprooting of everything when he became an adult, and the difficult learning process in the United States have all become the golden key to the door of life at this moment.
During his time in Hong Kong, Wendi Tang's feminine charm was greatly displayed.
Wendi Deng, who has loved fashion since childhood, finally has a good income to dress herself up, and because she is tall, she is very suitable for wearing dresses. The confident and enthusiastic white-collar beauty has attracted the attention of many colleagues.
Wendi Deng does not have an advantage in appearance, but her life experience has always proved that she has a very good opposite sex.
On the one hand, she has a kind and friendly friendship that is unique to women, and this kind of friendliness is expressed in the enthusiasm of Westerners, which is very pleasing and acceptable.
On the other hand, she is smart and focused at work, and as a social core among colleagues, she often takes on the role of an organizer, which in turn makes her respected by men.
03, fateful encounters
The story of Wendi Deng's first encounter with Murdoch is very famous. At a high-end cocktail party, Murdoch appeared in Hong Kong as the big boss. After Deng Wendi dressed up, he silently waited for the opportunity in a corner of the room.
When Murdoch was entertained for a round and rested alone, Wendi Deng seized this opportunity that no one dared to disturb. When he met Murdoch's calm eyes, Deng Wendi shook his hand and spilled the wine on Murdoch.
Then there is the familiar plot, Deng Wendi took the opportunity to wipe the conversation, and her invincible language charm also made the top guy discover her difference.
Against the backdrop of China's rapid growth, Murdoch needed an assistant who could Chinese, and the right person was right in front of her. The woman's personality was brave and enthusiastic, and her thinking was quick and fast, and Murdoch involuntarily chatted with this oriental-faced woman for more than two hours.
As Murdoch expected, Deng Wendi's work ability is very strong, and he can complete the work he explains efficiently and with high quality. And Deng Wendi is obviously a good material for being an assistant, always able to make a lot of good life considerations for Murdoch with his own female thinking.
Murdoch was still married, and he and his second wife had been living together for nearly thirty-one years. And at the moment he did not expect, he had a love mood because of an unexpected person.
A woman's love comes from adoration, and when a gold-rich attractive person takes the initiative to show affection, will you have ripples in your heart? Most people will, but Murdoch's age is simply too big, and this age gap will make most people just miss it.
But from Wendi Deng's first marriage, it can be seen that she is a person who does not care about age. When Murdoch expressed his affection to her with restraint and enthusiasm, the feelings between the two naturally warmed up.
But the world's rich are wary of divorce, which means a lot of wealth and group turmoil. Therefore, when Murdoch made a love request to Deng Wendi, Deng Wendi refused.
She had worked hard to finish college and had a satisfactory job, and she didn't want to lose money in a relationship that didn't know the future.
To Wendi's surprise, Murdoch replied, "I'm married to you." ”
To this end, Murdoch quickly "peacefully broke up" with his second wife, Anna. First, the other party was notified to withdraw directly from the group board, and then the second highest divorce fee in history was $1.7 billion.
Because, the ex-wife Anna deliberately stipulated in the divorce agreement that Deng Wendi was not eligible for property inheritance. It turned out that Murdoch had previously suffered from prostate cancer and had long lost his fertility during frequent chemotherapy. What Anna left on the agreement was a trap that had to be drilled.
But Murdoch really loved Deng Wendi at that time, and directly used his frozen sperm to let Deng Wendi give birth to two daughters to protect her interests.
After that, in more than a decade of getting along, Murdoch has always encouraged Wendi Deng to develop his career. When Wendi Deng traveled for a long time, Murdoch would adjust his time to take care of his two daughters.
Although, at the age of 45, Wendi Deng and Murdoch parted ways.
But the growth and love she has gained over the years has really existed, and she has become the most popular Chinese face in Vanity Fair.
After the divorce, Wendi Deng traveled among many young talents, and at this time she played the role of Murdoch and enjoyed the admiration of young people with admiration.
And her outstanding female friends are invariably elites from all walks of life, including Anna, the editor-in-chief of the American version of Time magazine, which led to the Met Gala fashion show in 2015.
In the cognition of all friends, Deng Wendi is a person with mixed charms, both the cordial friendship of Eastern women and the free enthusiasm of Western women. She has both the bravery and determination of a man and the delicacy and introversion of a woman.
Even without Murdoch, Wendi Deng can become a "successful self", which is perhaps the best summary of her life.