On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Ling, who has been longing for "Hot and Hot", came out.
There is no doubt that she received a round of applause, but at the same time there were also doubts, worries, and even complaints:
Some people were worried about Jia Ling's health, and "tears filled their eyes" when they saw her for the first time;
Some people thought that she was overdoing it. Marketing "weight loss" and reaping the dividends;
Of course, some people think the movie is "ugly", saying that there are loopholes in the plot and logic...
Some people directly asked the soul: "Can Jia Ling, who has lost weight, still act in comedy?"
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Among the highly polarized comments, few people pay attention to:
What has Jia Ling changed or achieved as the carrier of all this?
At the age of 42, she has come a long way from a "cross talk girl" who was never looked upon favorably. What did she give up at the peak of her career? What did you get?
1. Wrong choice of major
Since her appearance after successfully losing weight, Jia Ling’s height has become a hot topic.
People seem to be eager to learn everything about her, especially related to weight loss:
She is 1.66 meters tall and weighed only 109 pounds when she was most successful in losing weight - or this is still the same as "white and thin" in the traditional sense. The standards are far different, but benchmarking against its previous appearance is enough to become a new "inspirational template."
In fact, before she successfully "lost 100 pounds" this time, Jia Ling's story was already an "inspirational template".
She was born in a poor family in Hubei in 1982, but her parents were hardworking and kind-hearted, and worked hard to support a family of four.
Before Jia Ling could learn to walk, her parents took her and her sister Jia Dan, who was 5 years older, to live on a farm contracted by a chemical factory.
Due to her busy work schedule, she was "thrown" into the care of Jia Dan. The sisters' childhood playmates were a rabbit, two dogs and a cat.
Although they have very different personalities, they have an excellent relationship. Even now, her sister is Jia Ling's backbone.
Both sisters have had a dream of performing since they were young. Compared to the quieter sister, Jia Ling is the happy nut of the family. What she loves most is to imitate the singing and talking in "Quyuan Zatan", making the whole family laugh. laughing out loud.
In 1994, 17-year-old Jia Dan was admitted to the local Early Childhood Normal College. Later, through a friend, he met Teacher Zhang from Wuhan Art College and wanted to continue studying acting.
But the other party rejected Jia Dan on the grounds that "you can't waste time studying in two technical secondary schools." After thinking about it, her sister recommended 12-year-old Jia Ling.
She then became one of the three students accepted by the province that year. This was actually the result of Jia Dan carrying a bag of peanuts to Teacher Zhang.
In the art college, the talented Jia Ling studied acting for two years, and a few years later she began to work in Chinese opera.
In order to reduce the burden on his family, Jia Dan gave up studying and began to study by himself while working.
In 2000, 18-year-old Jia Ling unfortunately failed the art exam, but did not return to her hometown. Instead, she stayed in Beijing and worked as a waitress for a year.
In the second year, in order to ensure her smooth admission, she signed up for two acting classes, the drama performance class and the comedy performance class, at the same time when filling out her application form. Unexpectedly, she was admitted to both.
The school called and asked Jia Ling which one to choose. The person who answered the phone was her mother Li Huanying, who had an accent. When she answered "drama", she was mistakenly heard as "comedy" - this move directly led to Jia Ling becoming a cross talk actress. .
In the same year that she succeeded in the college entrance examination, Jia Dan also passed the Zhongchuan and Zhejiang Guangzhou with self-study.
However, due to family difficulties and unable to afford two children to study at the same time, my sister gave up the opportunity to continue studying.
This is a knot in Jia Ling's heart, and it is also one of the reasons why she will work hard in the future.
Fortunately, the comedy performance class she entered that year was hosted by comedy celebrities such as Feng Gong. Jia Ling cherished the opportunity after enrolling, and the teachers also saw her hard work.
But no one expected that not long after she entered school, her mother sadly passed away due to an accident.
This tragic experience has become a pain that she can never let go of.
Years later, she commemorated her mother in heaven in a different way, and unexpectedly achieved another peak in her career.
2. Repeated persistence
At that time, Jia Ling's mother accidentally fell off a dump truck when she and her father were going to cut straw, and sadly passed away.
After receiving the notice, she immediately asked for leave and went home - because she was too pressed for time and did not buy a ticket, she stood in the telescopic position of the two carriages for 15 hours.
didn't have a mobile phone, so she knelt down one by one for everyone in the carriage who had a mobile phone. Finally, she got through the call, only to learn that her mother had passed away.
Jia Ling didn't have time to see her mother for the last time.
She recalled lying in bed and "making a wish" with her parents many years ago:
"When I become a big star, I will buy several houses. This one is for you, and that one is for dad..."
After her mother passed away, Jia Ling In interviews, she mentioned more than once: "My happiness is always missing a corner."
But this was not a reason for her to stop and lie down, because after her mother passed away, her father's health also deteriorated, and she was studying again, and the whole family only She relies on her sister Jia Dan to support her alone.
For these reasons, Jia Ling could not stop. She had to study harder and grit her teeth and persevere through the most difficult years.
However, she chose the wrong major by mistake, and it was extremely difficult for her to learn cross talk.
Because cross talk is originally a form of performance for people to entertain people on the street. Although it pays attention to skills, there are inevitably some dirty jokes in the process of being passed down - which are not suitable for girls to tell.
Writer Chi Li once said: "Crosstalk often requires gags, playful smiles, and pretending to be crazy. When men do it, they are happy and unrestrained. It is a kind of demeanor. When a woman does it, she is completely stupid."
So, when Jia Ling just graduated, It is difficult to get a job, even though she won the first prize of professional crosstalk in the "National Crosstalk Sketch Invitational Competition" very early.
Fortunately, Master Feng Gong valued this apprentice very much and tried his best to support her. He would accompany her in almost all performances.
But life was still very tight. Jia Ling was living in a basement with the lowest rent at the time, and still had to rely on her sister to send her 500 yuan a month, while she only earned 1,300 yuan a month at that time.
Time soon came to 2005. Seeing that Jia Ling's acting career was not making any progress, Jia Dan gritted his teeth and said to her: "No, you can go home and develop!"
But she still refused to give up and promised her sister, Try hard for another year, and if it doesn't work, go back.
It was also the same year that she was admitted to work in the China Broadcasting Art Troupe, but she was still only able to work as a bit player, and her life did not improve at all.
Once, Jia Dan, who had hastily married, went to Beijing to visit his sister and found out that she was living a very hard life, so he went home and found a job for her that could earn 3,000 yuan a month and collect tolls on the highway.
Jia Ling was helpless when her sister insisted on taking her home.
At this time, it was her mentor Feng Gong who came forward and promised:
"She is talking about cross talk material, let her continue in Beijing! If she has no food, I will take care of it."
It is this persistence that makes Jia Ling able to stay in Beijing. At the age of 27, he appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and made a name for himself with the cross talk "Big Talk".
After that, she received more job offers, especially the one she accepted on Mango Channel's "The Variety Show". In the
program, Jia Ling successively played the roles of A Bao, Zhou Xiaoou, Huo Feng... She learned to be like anything, and became popular with this program, but in order to please the audience, she was not allowed to "make a fool of herself".
Later, she appeared on "Happy Comedian" one after another. She also won applause for her performances such as eating chili peppers, drinking beer, and eating watermelon in three seconds.
Since then, Jia Ling has become a new generation of "variety show queen", but there are bitter tears behind her.
As soon as she made money, she bought a house and a car for her sister and father. This fulfilled her dream, but as she said: happiness is always missing.
3. On the road of transformation
As Jia Ling became popular, her figure also slowly changed.
Careful viewers discovered that since 2011, when she performed on the Spring Festival Gala for the second time, she had begun to show a mellow trend.
In the following years, she often appeared in various variety shows, and her face became rounder day by day, and even her dimples were no longer obvious.
Although her master Feng Gong was worried about her: "Can I still find a partner like this?"
But her partner Shen Teng said: "Jia Ling's biggest advantage is that men like her and women are not jealous of her."
And there is helplessness behind this:
Jia Ling Ling herself said that she actually wanted to lose weight, but "I'm afraid that if I lose weight, the audience won't like me."
Just like that, she suddenly grew from 80 pounds to 180 pounds, and her career flourished along with her weight change.
In 2016, Jia Ling established her own Dawan Entertainment, and the first artist she signed was her partner and friend Zhang Xiaofei.
The first sketch produced by the new company was "Hello, Li Huanying", which would later lead to her successful transformation.
There is no doubt that this is definitely the most touching work - because it does not carry a fictional story, but a soft daughter's endless longing for her mother and unfulfilled regrets.
Sure enough, "Hello, Li Huanying" not only made my father cry all night after watching it, but also won applause from the audience.
What is actually little known is that before the skit was aired, Jia Ling had already started to prepare for the filming of a movie of the same name, and the preparations alone took three years.
In 2021, the movie release did not disappoint. Her directorial "debut" became a dark horse, with a box office of 5.4 billion, setting a new record in the film market.
Jia Ling also promised when the box office of the film was rising:
"If the box office exceeds 3 billion, I will lose weight!"
Originally, everyone thought she was just talking, but she is confirming After this goal, implementation really started.
It is reported that the last time Jia Ling appeared before she "disappeared" was when Zhang Xiaofei celebrated her birthday in April last year. Although she looked thin in the photo, she was still fat.
After that, Jia Ling never appeared again. Whether it was herself or her friends in the circle, there were no even sporadic updates.
Later, "Ace vs. Ace" announced that she had gone to film a movie - and Jia Ling was also absent from this variety show where she was a regular.
In other words, at the peak of her career, she "disappeared".
Although it was also rumored at the time that Jia Ling was going to film "Hot and Spicy", the specific story was unknown to the outside world.
It was not until a few days before the work was to be released that everyone learned that one year after
"disappeared", Jia Ling first gained more than 30 kilograms for the role, and then lost 100 kilograms, and finally her weight was fixed at 109 kilograms.
On the same day the movie was released, Jia Ling appeared for an interview for the first time. She bluntly stated that she lost weight to be closer to the character, and she had absolutely no anxiety about selling:
"Le Ying realizes her dream by becoming thinner. In fact, her core is not to become thinner." , but getting stronger, I don’t want to focus on the body, but it is inevitable to talk about it.”
Indeed, when the public faces the new Jia Ling, in addition to positive emotions such as curiosity and admiration, some people will also have many Question:
For example, her personality has changed? Does she look older after losing weight? Can she still act in comedies in the future...
But in fact, perhaps in Jia Ling's eyes, "Hot and Spicy" itself is a history of the transformation of a flattering personality. Who cares whether she will be likable in the future?
It can be said that what Jia Ling brought us was not only the chicken soup of "Life kissed me with pain, but I responded with songs" and "The boat has crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains", but also the attitude of taking life seriously.
Just like when she was asked, "Will I pay attention to body management in the future?", she smiled and replied, "It depends on my mood."
She has already become a legend that cannot be copied. No matter what she does, it will not be a surprise.
