At that time, when Li Dongtian first saw the ugly model Lü Yan, he was shocked, and he excitedly touched Lü Yan's freckled face and sincerely exclaimed: "Oh my God, you are so beautiful!" I'm going to paint you an international face! Lu Yan angrily asked, "We have no grievances and no enmity, why are you mocking me?" Who could have imagined that it was the man in front of him who had changed the fate of Lu Yan's life from then on.
Lü Yan was born in the De'an mining area of Jiangxi Province, her family conditions are not very good, her father is a hairdresser, and her mother is an authentic farmer. Since she was a child, she has followed the boys of the village up and down the river, and her personality is cheerful and spicy. "No one sees me like a girl," and for a long time she was the only girl in the local playroom. After graduating from junior high school, she went to Nanchang to study and majored in finance and accounting. Because of her appearance, Lu Yan has always been very inferior, and even her classmates have ridiculed her, saying that her "squinting eyes" is already light. Many students asked her: Can your eyes see things clearly? Even more, they laughed at her big mouth. Lu Yan's childhood was raised by the sound of ridicule, and she did not dare to look up every day when she walked with low self-esteem. So, despite her height of 178cm, she became an ugly hunchback.
But this woman who is considered ugly in the sky, who would have thought that she could become an international supermodel? Even she herself could not imagine that she could finally marry a foreign husband and give birth to a cute mixed-race baby boy. Because Lu Yan was ugly, her classmates also gave her nicknames, and later everyone unanimously called her: Big Bird. After graduating from junior high school, Lu Yan, who studied accounting at secondary school, saw an advertisement for a modeling training class in the newspaper, in order to get rid of ridicule and get rid of annoying inferiority, Lu Yan specially applied for a physical class, hoping that she could be reborn. In the training class, Lu Yan is not afraid of suffering or tiredness, and she has only one thought in her heart: I want to be the best version of myself! Because of her high stature, when many students were eliminated, only Lu Yan remained in the training class, which made Lü Yan have confidence in herself.
Not long after the training, the model class next door had to choose 5 people to team up in Beijing to participate in the competition, but there was still one person left. So the modeling class teacher asked her, "Are you interested in modeling?" Lu Yan nodded unconfidently, which made the teacher ecstatic. In this way, Lu Yan walked out of the countryside for the first time, came to the metropolis of Beijing, and mistakenly met the famous "model girl godmother" Han Yinghua. Known as the "Bole" of the modeling industry, it has held the World Model Competition and cultivated and helped the super celebrities of first-class models such as Li Ai and Cuckoo. When I first met Lü Yan, I also greatly appreciated it, and according to her years of experience, she encouraged Lü Yan to quit school and develop the road of full-time modeling. Encouraged by him, Lu Yan made up her mind to make a career in the modeling circle. Soon, the opportunity quietly came, and she met Li Dongtian, a noble man in life.
Once, Lu Yan was invited to be a model for someone, and when she came to the shooting place, a man looked at her and couldn't help but praise her: "Sister, you look so beautiful." But when Lu Yan heard this, she couldn't help but shout in her heart, the man's mouth, the deceitful ghost! Because she understood what she looked like, and pretty, it was obvious that the man was satirizing her, so she didn't give him a good look. But the man still praised her beautifully. At this time, Lu Yan was angry, and she said angrily: My face is full of freckles, my nose is collapsed, and my eyes are small, where is it beautiful? I didn't expect this man to say: This is your characteristic, self-confidence, you are the most beautiful. This was the first time Lu Yan had heard others praise her for being beautiful, and she also had a good feeling for this man. It turned out that this man's name was Li Dongtian, a stylist, known as the "godfather of makeup" in the fashion circle has a certain reputation.
The encounter between the two changed Lü Yan's fate. At that time, Lu Yan's face was full of freckles, and this was exactly the source of Li Dongtian's inspiration. Under the control of Li Dongtian, Lü Yan took the first large film of her life, "Freckled Lilies", and hung it on Wangfujing Street. As soon as the poster came out, many people thought it was a freckle removal advertisement, but Lu Yan's life began to change because of this poster. This set of alternative photos made Li Dongtian's studio fire, and also made Lu Yan fire. But Lu Yan's appearance is not dominant in China, and a model agency from Paris has extended an olive branch to her. Lu Yan went to Paris alone, and also suffered a lot of losses because of the language barrier. Once, when she took a picture of VOGUE, the photographer kept saying Don't move, but Lu Yan didn't know what it meant and kept posing. It wasn't until the photographer went crazy and said stop that Lu Yan didn't know what was going on.
Since then, in addition to practicing modeling skills, she has begun to study English and French assiduously. In the end, she won the recognition of the brand and photographers for her down-to-earth work attitude, and her fame grew. In 2000, Lu Yan participated in the World Top Model Competition and won the global runner-up. This runner-up made Lu Yan's fame increase greatly, and many outsiders knew that there was such a model, which triggered a national discussion about aesthetic standards. Since then, Lu Yan has gained fame and fortune, and has continuously offered job opportunities, changing from "the first ugly model" to "China's first world supermodel". In 2013, Lu Yan retired from the rapids of the modeling world, transformed into a fashion designer, and launched her personal brand COMME MOI. Due to her successful operation, she was also named the most influential business woman in China (Future List).
At the same time as her career success, Lu Yan also harvested love, married a French investment consultant, and gave birth to a mixed-race son, Arthur. Lu Yan, along the way, has been criticized. But she used bravery and tenacity not to accept defeat to break through the world's stereotypes and explain how people who are not optimistic can turn against the wind and live beautifully.