Jessica Hsuan Gains 20 Pounds
After finishing her promotions for TVB drama Tiger Cubs <飛虎> last year, Jessica Hsuan (宣萱) rarely appeared in Hong Kong. The 43-year-old has been diligently filming in mainland China. Her latest Chinese drama The War of Beauties <爱情悠悠药草香>, which completed its 48-episode broadcast on September 1, received successful ratings on Jiangsu Weishi and Anhui Weishi.
According to various tabloids, Jessica entered into a “boring spinster” lifestyle after breaking up with her foreign veterinarian boyfriend, Ruan Bester, two years ago. With an extremely dry love life, Jesscia spent most of her days eating meals with friends and colleagues, and noticeably gained over 20 pounds in the last few months.
Jessica had humorously mentioned her weight gain in passing a few months ago. She joked that even the Chinese director asked her to hold in her stomach during filming.
Even former costars did not recognize Jessica after her weight gain. When showing a recent photo of Jessica to Jazz Lam (林子善), he immediately said he did not recognize her.
Recently, Jessica made a rare public appearance to support the Hong Kong showing of French cabaret, Crazy Horse. Posing for press photos with celebrity guests and former costars Mimi Lo (羅敏莊) and Leila Tong (唐寧), Jessica looked cheerful and healthy. However, Jessica refused to accept any press interviews.
Source: Apple Daily; The Sun
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
20lb is not that bad. She can lose it all in no time. She has been skinny all her life, that’s good she enjoying life.
At 43 and no love life, what else can she turn to but food………she will pack on more pounds in the coming years…….a woman at that age with no love, man or family is “leftover”…….
That is a very distorted statement about women, not to mention calling someone “leftover” is extremely rude.
This is exceptionally rude and as a single girl, I feel terribly offended. So what if we don’t have a love life? We’re all capable of doing just the same amount of things.
I trust Jessica does have her family members standing by her regardless with or without a lover. I hope you feel some if not all remorseful for your sexist comment.
Your above statement is very rude to any females. A lot of single women are still very happy without any boyfriends or lovers.
Why am I not surprised that yuaida has said something nasty again. Your verbal diarrhea is unpleasant and sadly pathetic.
You have such negatively towards women.
better to be single leftover than married to men with such backward attitudes
It doesn’t necessarily means a person’s not having a boyfriend/not married is sad & pathetic. There are many women out there who are happily being single. Sometimes it’s a choice but some of them can’t find a compatible person so what should they do, just grab any man is it? Having said that, having a boyfriend or being married doesn’t necessary means you’ve the key to happiness.
I think we should all know how yuaida is by now so I am NOT shocked that he said what he did. Who said that ALL women had to get married and have kids?? There are many women who choose to be single or just have not found their right person yet. One of my aunts did not get married until she was 43 but is happily married to a great guy now.
How do you feel about guys that age that have no love, a woman or their own family at that age?? Would you consider them as leftovers??
My cousin from HK came visit one time and she says HK people love to put a label on women esp single women. Even pass 30, I think if they are not married, they will say she is a leftover lady. I think they are so rude and inconsiderate but I guess that’s how some HKers think or at least they learn from HK series perhaps?
These days, no one need to have a marriage partner to be happy but reality is they just love to put a connection/label on people in general I think. In fact, if you are not involved w/the opposite sex, they will probably think you are gay/lesbian. Some people just don’t get that people can actually be happy w/o a relationship and they’re probably thinking you are just pretending since you are single. It’s sad that people need to label other people but thats generally what ppl love doing I think.
That’s very rude. Single female at her age is not leftover. Perhaps you need t be more mature and join the modern world. Single woman can live happily and be very successful without men.
yuaida’s comment could be true but perhaps maybe rude if you take it the wrong way. Maybe you have to take out the word leftover. However I found her comment funny! We know she’s not a leftover she is just not lucky enough to find someone she feels committed to forever and is okay if you heavn’t find true love but if you have problem in trusting then is her personal fault for ended her love life empty. Something to learn about herself for her. At age 43 though she should be extremely careful regarding her weight not to mention she’s an actress. Set a goal watch what you eat…never go pass your limit for your weight in. Because looking fat-obese is not healthy and not attractive. Some may argue for whatever reasons but there is no excuse when it comes to taking care of your own health.
@HeTieShou is very sensitive today. By 43 in minority most are married with kids which is true and not all are dirvorce there’s a percentage of them are good real peoples that understand feelings comes and goes. Nobody is perfect and if a marriage is not going well there are couples out there that work very hard to get themself to fall in love again and not take the easy route dirvorcing separete families and friends and themselves put families through hell on holidays. Just because is common now a days doesn’t mean is right. But if someone cheated then that’s a different story.
Jessic ahas lose all her appeal, what happened to the slim sexy girl I know from ‘No 1 royal court’ in the 1990s?
No love life? of course, if you keep going for whites and blacks, when you are yellow.
But with a name like Jessica Hester Hsuan, you must be dreaming of being a white girl. If so, then no yellow man wants you is fair and square.
Your comment is SO racist and close minded! First of all, if you love someone regardless of who it is, their race and nationality should not matter at all. If you purposely go for anyone just because of race/nationality then there is truly something wrong in my book. I often have guys come up to me and ask me what nationality I am and honestly, that really bothers me. It shows that some people are only interested in you just because you look like a particular nationality/race. Love should have no boundaries and I find it sad that many still are stuck in the old world where you ONLY marry within your race or whatever.
Hey @HeTieShou, stop being a moral crusader, especially when you come from a melting pot country, which has no real identity except perhaps crying freedom to the whole world all the time.
No wonder these kind of traits rub off on you and you think you are one hell of a moral guardian.
Sorry TAsian, HTS is correct in her statement.
Love knows no boundries, and shouldn’t be limited to such things as the “colour” of one’s skin. I’ve dated women with roots from North America, France, England, Italy, Korea, Japan and I married a woman from Hong Kong. We are ALL human beings underneath.
It’s hard enough to find love in the world… I think it grows even harder if you limit yourself to a single skin colour.
WTF with all this “color” thing that you talking??? I guess you are one of those stinky “yellow” that sounded really racist/discriminated toward women that like to date others than her own skin. Just shut up and give Women some Respect please. Men/Women can choose whoever to be our partner as long as we happy and if you are not happy, just take a break. Do you have to go that extreme to tell that non of your “yellow” want her??? Well, I guess why she didn’t like “yellow” because some of you are “Control Freak.”
Looks like those who comment on my post are non-yellow themselves. So much for fair basis in their comments for they are clearly biased, biased towards their own.
Those yellow girls who like whites are known as ‘sarong party girls’ (SPG) in South East Asia, and this term is coined by the caucasians themselves.
They are seen as ‘easy’ and good for one night stand and will fall into bed at a switch because some white guy is ‘handsome’ in their eyes. And white guys know this, so they ‘hunt’ for them, easy lay, who woudn’t want??
Are they family girls? No, not these SPGs.
There are comments in online by white guys that boasted Asian girls like them, and its the girls fault.
Asian guys are better, they might admire the causcasian girls’ body, but they also know the attributes of Asian girls’ physical beauty, and don’t purposely date them as girl friends.
Hey @Ptt,
WTF you talking??? I guess you are one of those stinky “white” that sounded really preying on Asian women, and that quality you on being racist/discriminated toward them
So just shut up yourself and give our women some respect.
TA – I’ve lived in asia for a few years, and while I was there I never dated anyone. Why? Because I was young, and I knew I’d be returning home and there was no point in dating someone when there was no chance for us to realistically be together. Why place the stigma on the woman? Are there idiot guys who go to asia because they think women are easy? Yes. Thailand itself is well known for its “sex tours.” But as I’ve always stated, it takes two to tango. There are certain subsets of the population no matter where you are that are “easier” when it comes to carnal relations. This exists in all countries with all races and is not just restricted to “whites/yellows” in asia as you’d infer.
But to classify everyone because of the actions of a few is very narrow minded.
Your attempts to try an “elevate” one set of men above an another based on skin colour is also wholely inappropriate, especially when you are unable to see the kind of attitude that is pervasive in your own neck of the woods. A recent survey in China found that depending on where you are, just over 20% of men (1 in 5) admitted to having raped a woman either by force, or when the woman was incapacitated to alchohol or drugs and unable to stop the action.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24021573
Reminds me of a saying about throwing stones when living in glass houses…
Truly Asian, I’m your so call yellow person and just because I agree with He Tie Shou, TVB Fanatic and Ptt. It does not make me a sarong party girl. Indeed, love should have no boundaries and we should be tolerant and accept all races as who they are.
@HeTieShou. Al kinds of peoples white, black Asians asked my nationality and I don’t see it as being racist or anything like the way you see it. People are curious and I am sometimes but not in a mean way and is understandable. Dispite the color of your skin there are bad peoples out there with every skin color. Happily married to a Caucasian man who loved me for me. I agreed most whites ended in divorce but don’t judge that ALL are like that!
How rude of yuaida to make such a statement.
So what if she puts on a little weight, she still looks good, as long as she’s healthy, who cares if she packs the pounds.
You don’t need a man to make you happy or complete. Many woman with a successful career is all the happiness she needs, get over yourself yuaida.
wow yuaida, you are a pathetic. It is 2013 and you still can’t get over something so trivial like the difference between colors.
She does look chubby in the above photo. 8 to 10 lb. will be okay for Jessica, but not 20 lb.
I do not think it is a bad thing at all. Women who hit a certain age should have some kind of meat. I rather see a bubbly and not too over weight middle age woman than a scrawny, fragile scary looking witch who looks like she is 80. I think I watch too many cartoons back then…
She looks like a healthy and good looking woman.. Media love the fat /thin topic..
yeah, so true – take christine kuo as an example
I genuinly think Christine looks beautiful despite her weight gain. Even though she has gained weight and her weight has fluctuated, I dont find her ‘fat’ AT ALL as the media claims…
She still looks nice.
Sure she looks healthy but I think she’s going to be consigned to playing matronly roles thereafter.
I think her face ballooned. not that good on her. should shed a bit. body a bit flesh ok but not the face…
lol well when people gain weight they can’t really have full control of which part of their body the weight goes to. AS long as she’s happy and healthy, I dont see it as an image issue. Yes she’s a celebrity so image is important, but she shouldnt go changing to please the media. If she doesn’t have a problem with her weight gain, I dont think anyone else should lol.
Well said its her body after all
Actually, the said article is regurgitation old news. Check out Jessica’s latest photo taken late August this year at her birthday party with her fans. She was not fat at all — in fact she was very slim. Fanx: 这是今年八月底粉丝参加宣萱生日会拍的。你再看记者放的照片，高级黑！
post#8 at tvb baidu forum
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2588569986?pn=1
http://imgsrc.baidu.com/forum/w%3D580/sign=5dc2ab07b3fb43161a1f7a7210a64642/9efa9a504fc2d562e59a1b21e61190ef74c66caa.jpg
The first link – she looks chubby with double chins.
The second link – she looks the same, but not sure when the photo was posted.
@sandcherry: Sorry, guess I wasn’t clear with my words. scroll down to post#8 on tvb baidu
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2588569986?pn=1
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If click on the first link, scroll down to post#8 to see Jessica’s late august slim down picture, which is the same picture on link2. The pix on post#1 is an old pix when Jessica supposedly gained that 20lbs — btw that picture seems ps.) but since then she has slim down per latest pix.
btw link2 pix = post#8 on link1.
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I got it. Thanks!
Shocking! But she is happy! And guess what? She is probably normal size!
She could lose weight if she go backs to TVB… except you gain more weight when eating TVB company lunch boxes.
Its very baseless of tvb to attribute her weight gain to no love life. It is well known women gain more weight when they are actually in a relationship than when they are single.
i think she looks better and more healthy. she was wayy too skinny before. i think she looks cute with a chubby face ^^
what crap is there to eat in china
It is normal a woman to gain weight after reaching her late 30’s as the metabolism rate slows down as you age. As long as Jessica is happy and comfortable in her own skin, what’s the harm in gaining a few pounds? It’s refreshing to see an actress not trying to conform to the stick thin image.
She was never really a great looking woman to begin with esp when she first debuted, everyone thought she looks ugly. But as time progresses, audiences get used to her face and thats how it is w/most actors/actresses’. Anyone who think Moses Chan good looking? Seriously, he’s tall but certainly nowhere close to even be called good looking but people get used to their faces so they become not as ugly but in reality, they were never that good looking to begin with.
But above pic, I think she still looks OK for her age; nothing too harsh to criticize but no compliments either.
Whoever thought she was SEXY OR BEAUTIFUL before is just as the saying goes ‘beauty is in the eyes of the beholder’….
It’s better for a woman to be single than being in a bad & bitter marriage! 😉
damn…she’s fat…ihihh
So what if she gained weight? Its no ones elses buisness but hers, its not hurting anyone. If she likes the way she looks and shes happy, let it be.
I can’t help but /facepalm this picture above. She looks like my mom now with her chubby cheeks.
She looks like a normal human female. I seriously don’t understand the issue with weight these days. Unless it gives health problems, why does it bother others so much? It only makes complainers look shallow and silly.
Good for you Jessica, glad you are cheerful and healthy.
Those who consider her fat and ugly have been brainwashed by the media because according to them,in order to look sexy, a women has to look like skin and bones.
Did anyone make a Bridget Jones joke yet?
Haters, please leave Jessica alone.
I don’t see why her gaining or losing weight is anyone’s business except her own, so please stop sippin’ on the haterade and at least look at yourself in the mirror before you bash someone’s looks.
It’s human nature to be judgmental toward others…
We all do it.
She also gained a lot of weight before when she went to Africa? But managed to lose it all again…not too worried for her
In my opinion women should only gain weight during pregnancies not when your living a normal life. Theres ways you can enjoy yummy foods and not gain any or gain a few lbs during vacations but 20lbs!? Sorry I just don’t get it. Picture above is just showing her face not the body. I remembered how a 5lbs of fats looked like at the gym so 20lbs of fat is just making me nodding my head and say take care of yourself. Jessica you have money to hired a chef and a trianer! No excuses especially when you are an actress who is quite popular!