What is beauty? In this day and age, uniqueness is beauty, and everyone aspires to show their uniqueness. But before this era, uniqueness meant exclusion.
A girl from a rural area, but because of her unique appearance, she was scolded and isolated, until she met Bo Le, she did not know that uniqueness is the weapon of her career.
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In 1981, In De'an, Jiangxi, a girl with a unique appearance that even her biological parents could not believe was born. Her parents are ordinary people here, so they also gave this girl an ordinary name - Lu Yan.
Strangely, The seemingly ordinary Lu Yan showed her difference when she was a child.
First of all, she is very tall, having grown to 1.78 meters by the age of 18, a remarkable feature that makes her stand out in the crowd. The little princess in everyone's heart is white and beautiful, and the appearance of the pavilion is beautiful. But coincidentally, Lü Yan is not white or beautiful in addition to being tall.
Her lips were thick, her eyes were so small that when they were opened, they looked like they were half closed, and her nose collapsed so much that she could hardly see the roots of the mountain.
Chinese value the influence of relative fate, especially in the countryside, so adults think that Lu Yan is a girl with a hard life, and other children do not like to play with her.
In order to appear more social, Lu Yan had to bow her back and make herself like a shrimp. It has to be said that in times and places that are not enlightened enough, it is difficult to allow unique existence.
Fortunately, although she was excluded from the outside, her family was quite warm. Lü Yan's hometown is surrounded by mountains, isolated and poor, and her parents only have a salary of 600 yuan per month, but Lü Yan and her younger siblings grew up in love.
Later, in order to correct his posture, his parents agreed to Lu Yan to apply for a ballet class.
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Lu Yan's training class is preparing to send students to participate in the model competition in Beijing, and it is necessary to form a model team to participate in the competition that year, just one person is still missing. The teacher proposed to let Lü Yan participate, and the unconfident Lü Yan refused at first, but when she heard that she could go to the capital Beijing without paying for it herself, she happily agreed.
Turning points in life are often hidden in humble choices. Lu Yan, who went to Beijing, changed her life plan, and she decided to stay in the big city of Beijing, because she was not so prominent in the crowd of people standing in the big city, and the crowd made her feel safe.
Soon, Lü Yan, who was drifting in the north, met the life Bole. During one work, Li Dongtian, the godfather of Chinese makeup, and Feng Hai, a photographer, discovered Lu Yan's jade.
Li Dongtian praised Lu Yan as "beautiful", which was the first time she had heard others praise her beauty since she was a child. It is also this sentence that makes Lu Yan see another possibility of life.
Bo Le met Maxima is a beautiful thing in the right place, so they cooperated to shoot a blockbuster for Lu Yan. Their work is painted in gray and white tones, and Lu Yan does not have heavy makeup, but just smears baby oil and freckles, standing behind lilies. Li Dongtian put this work on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, and the photo caused people to talk about it - can you be a model like this?
Lu Yan's self-confidence was shaken in this heated discussion, but fortunately fate still took care of her. Soon after, she was favored by the director of the movie "The Veil" and got the opportunity to perform.
This made the shaken Lu Yan re-establish her idea and continue to stay in Beijing to be a model.
Eventually, by chance, she signed a contract with a model agency in France. On that day, Lu Yan was in the hotel lobby and the company's agent face to face, the agent from France at a glance to Lu Yan, hoping that she can go to France together to start a modeling career.
It can be said that when a person wants to get more opportunities, he should go to a bigger stage. Lü Yan, who had gone from a small county to Beijing, should deeply understand this truth, so Lü Yan accepted. At that time, Lu Yan was 19 years old, and like her eldest cousin Liu Wen, she struggled alone in a foreign country at a young age.
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Lu Yan, who had just arrived in France, was excited and worried at the same time. Because she was not familiar with life, did not understand the language, and was still very poor. When she was struggling, she spent the whole month on boiled eggs.
Paris is the capital of fashion, and it's not easy to get an offer in a beautiful Paris. But under desperate circumstances, people's potential can always be fully explored, and Lu Yan, who does not understand the language, takes the fast translation and interviews with more than a dozen companies a day, and strives to recommend herself.
Finally, a shampoo advertisement extended an olive branch to her. After that, she made a big film for "VOGUE" and an advertisement for Dior, and she finally stood firm in Paris after not accepting defeat. But she wasn't on fire at the time.
In 2000, in order to make Lu Yan go to a higher level, the agent recommended Lu Yan to participate in the "World Model Competition" held in China. Under the persuasion of her agent, Lu Yan gave up her achievements in Paris and embarked on a journey to compete.
In this competition, she won the runner-up, got an unprecedented good result for the Chinese model, and opened up her popularity. After that, she really embarked on the flower road. Got countless endorsements and catwalk opportunities.
In 2010, she was named Asia's Most Influential Model in the 14th Mandarin Chart. The following year, she served as a judge for a model contest. At the age of 32, she decided to create a personal brand, COMME MOI, which means "like me", but no one around her supported her, thinking that she might not be able to do this well.
But along the way, Lu Yan, who has experienced various ups and downs, once again firmed up her ideas, starting from a small workshop of three people to winning the designer award, she launched her brand. Realized the transformation from moving bricks for others to moving bricks for yourself.
After success, Lu Yan did not forget her past hardships, she would go deep into the mountains, send school supplies to the children, and encourage them to learn well to get out of the mountains.
"If you are safe and clean", Lu Yan, who has a successful career, met his true destiny, but unlike most people's scripts, this time it was Lü Yan who took the initiative to talk to win the heart of this Handsome French man, and the two also had a son. Since then, it has been a quiet time of one house, three people, three meals and four seasons.
May we not only have different ambitions but also have the courage to make decisions for our own lives.