There is a highly controversial girl in the modeling world.
She is the "most beautiful woman in China" in the eyes of foreign media.
But it is the "first ugly model" in the eyes of many Chinese people.
She herself thinks that "I never thought I was pretty, but I didn't think I was ugly either."
She is the Chinese supermodel Lu Yan, who has won the most international honors.
Now when it comes to Lu Yan, most people will use the words "counterattack" and "lucky" to describe her.
But from the "ugly girl" of a mining area in China,
Later, she became an international supermodel who dominated the European and American supermodel circle, married the second generation of the French rich, and established her own brand.
Does Lü Yan's "counterattack" road rely only on luck?
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In 1981, Lü Yan was born in an ordinary family in a fluorite mining area in De'an, Jiangxi Province, China, she is the eldest, with a younger brother and sister below.
Her parents run a barbershop and earn about $600 a month.
Although the income is not much, but the parents are optimistic, the teaching of Xiao Luyan is also to work hard as a person, do not be afraid of hardship.
Mother Lu also taught Little Lü Yan that it was a blessing to suffer losses.
Many girls want to grow tall, but when she was a child, Lu Yan was very annoyed because she grew too tall.
Growing up in the countryside, she is more than 1.7 meters tall in her teens.
She was tall with dark skin, and standing next to her classmates, she seemed to stand out from the crowd, but she did not enjoy the feeling of standing out from the crowd.
In order to be able to play with her classmates, Lu Yan deliberately walked hunched over, which made her look even more weird.
After graduating from junior high school, Lu Yan entered a school to study accounting, thinking that she would have a stable job in the future, and she would never think of becoming a model in the future.
Many times it may be because of some inadvertent things that change their fate.
At that time, Lu Yan, who was studying huiji in school, was troubled by the impact of her image with her chest hunched over, so she decided to enroll in a ballet dance class to correct her shape.
And this decision changed Lu Yan's life.
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Good luck is often on the next turn.
Next to the ballet training class where Lu Yan was located was a model training class.
At that time, the model team was going to Beijing to participate in the competition, and there was a lack of a tall girl, so Lu Yan, who was 1.78 meters tall, pulled together to count.
What is even more unexpected is that in this competition, the other girls on the model team were eliminated in the preliminary round, and she, who was pulled to count, passed the preliminary round.
Although she was eventually eliminated, she was still excited because she realized that she still had an advantage in her height and had the idea of becoming a model.
One day in 1997, Lu Yan went to a magazine for an interview, and then she met her two Bole Feng Hai and Li Dongtian.
Li Dongtian is extremely famous in China and is known as the "godfather of Chinese makeup".
As soon as Li Dongtian saw Lu Yan, he said to her, You look really beautiful.
The first time I heard others praise lu Yan for her beautiful looks, she was very moved.
Later, there was a group of photographic works by Feng Hai, Li Dongtian and Lü Yan.
This group of works was also put into the most prosperous Wangfujing Street, and Lü Yan also entered the fashion circle.
Although Lu Yan is famous in the fashion circle, her appearance has aroused many people in China to question.
It is said that when Li Dongtian took the freckled lily to the beach for exhibition, the staff asked why they did not find a better model.
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Aesthetics are such things, that is, benevolent people see the wise people see wisdom.
Lu Yan, who has a collapsed nose bridge, a round face, small eyes, and thick lips, does not conform to the aesthetics of the Chinese people, but it fascinates some people abroad.
In 1999, Lu Yan met two French scouts at a hotel in Beijing, and the two invited her to work as a model in France.
Most of us will be regarded as a liar when we encounter this, but Lu Yan agreed.
Later, Lu Yan said that she also had nothing to lose.
But how difficult it was for a 20-year-old girl to work alone in France, plus Lu Yan had no money, no language barrier, and no background and resources at that time.
Without money, she can only live in a room of 9 square meters;
Do not understand foreign languages, can only eat boiled eggs for several months in a row;
Without a background, she was subjected to a lot of rejection and blank eyes.
But keep in mind that her parents taught not to be afraid of hardship, she has not given up, and decided to break through.
After repeated interviews, she finally got a chance to walk on the streets of Paris in summer clothes in winter, because of the cold, many models gave up, but she stepped on the runway against the cold.
Her efforts touched many people, many magazines extended an olive branch to her, and she began to emerge in the French fashion circle.
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Just when Lu Yan was mixing well in France, her agent asked her to return to China to participate in the World Model Competition.
At first, Lu Yan refused, because she knew that it did not conform to the aesthetics of the Chinese people.
But she thought about who would appreciate her if she gave up on herself.
So she decided to go back to China to try it, but she didn't expect this test, she won the runner-up of the World Top Model Competition, and before that, the best result of chinese models was only fourth.
After winning the award, Lu Yan became the darling of the fashion industry, but there was still controversy about her appearance.
Some people think that her popularity is that Westerners are scandalizing Orientals, which is a kind of blasphemy against classical Chinese beauty.
But Lu Yan is not afraid of these controversies, and she is becoming more and more famous in the controversy, and has won many awards in international modeling competitions, running all over Paris, Milan and other shows.
In addition to catwalking, she also entered the show business circle, and since 2007, she has participated in many film and television dramas.
In short, the once "ugly girl in the mining area" has become an international supermodel with a full blooming career.
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Just when Lu Yan's career was in full swing, her love also came as promised.
In 2010, Lu Yan met a handsome and handsome French man, and she fell in love with this attractive French man at first sight.
The so-called female chasing male compartment yarn, under the backward pursuit of Lü Yan, this French aristocratic man became her husband.
In 2012, Lü Yan gave birth to a mixed-race son of the two.
After the double harvest of love career, Lu Yan began a new life plan.
Lu Yan once said that whether it is not recognized at home or amazing abroad, it is living in the aesthetics of others.
She didn't want that, she wanted to define what she saw as beauty, so she decided to start her own brand.
So he gave up his career in Paris and chose to return to China to become a fashion designer.
But her decision, many people are not optimistic, including her relatives and friends.
But along the way, she was not optimistic, but in the end she did not succeed, so she firmly believed that she could succeed as a designer in this transformation.
Without an agent or assistant, Lu Yan personally went to war, and even the decorations in the store were picked up from IKEA by herself.
She took seven or eight workers and spent 5 months making 10 clothes, which were sold in the clothing integration store of a famous independent brand in China.
After experiencing many difficulties, Lu Yan finally founded her own brand and held a personal brand fashion show.
Her brand of clothes is also favored by Jiang Shuying, Yan Ni, Chen Shu and other first-line stars in the entertainment industry.
In film and television dramas such as "Perfect Relationship" and "Ideal City", actresses such as Chen Shu and Sun Li wear her brand clothes.
In these 20 years, Lu Yan has gone from a "mining ugly girl" to an international supermodel, and then from the wife of a French aristocrat to the founder of a clothing brand.
In this battle of life, Lu Yan fought a beautiful turnaround battle.
Her success did come with an element of luck, and she met Bole who appreciated her.
But her success is not only lucky, but also her hard work, persistence, and courage to let go.
Lu Yan used her own experience to tell us that beauty is in the bones, and I hope that each of us can have our own beautiful life through our own efforts.