On Chinese New Year's Eve a few days ago, 61-year-old actress Michelle Yeoh suddenly posted a baby photo, officially announcing the good news:"On the first day of 2024, a miracle happened! ”
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many netizens expressed shock:Michelle Yeoh is a mother???
According to public information, Michelle Yeoh is 61 years old, and her new husband, former Ferrari president Jean Todd, is nearly 78 years old.
Someone directly asked: "She is menopausal, can she still give birth?" ”
In the face of various speculations, Michelle Yeoh quickly clarified that it was the son born to her husband and ex-wife who was upgraded to a father.
And Michelle Yeoh was officially promoted to grandmother because of this, so she couldn't bear to announce the good news to everyone.
Speaking of Michelle Yeoh, as a world-renowned actress, her every recent situation always attracts the attention of countless people.
At the recent Oscars, Michelle Yeoh won the championship with the movie "Instant Universe" and became the first Asian Oscar queen.
Subsequently, she married her boyfriend who had been running for 20 years.
In addition, she received a doctorate in literature from the people of Hong Kong.
Michelle Yeoh's acting career has gone through 40 years so far, and she has always shown herself as a "beating girl", and she is known as the "big devil" in the entertainment industry. However, after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", there were no more works that shone brightly, and his career fell into a bottleneck.
And since she got married to her ex-husband in her early years, she has never been married.
Now in her early 60s, she has finally ushered in a double harvest of career and love.
Whether it is the radiant and confident appearance in life, or the tenacious and powerful mother image in the film, especially the large number of fighting scenes, it is difficult to believe that she is 61 years old.
How hard is Michelle Yeoh?
40 years ago, she gave up her identity as a famous princess, gave up the life of a wealthy family, and almost died tragically at the bottom of the bridge for her dreams.
Michelle Yeoh was born into a wealthy family in Malaysia, her grandfather owned a bus company, and her father was a senior lawyer who was later canonized as Dato, which is quite famous. Since she was a child, Michelle Yeoh was educated by her family to the standards of high society daughters, and was sent to learn piano and ballet at the age of four; At the age of 15, he studied in the United Kingdom and entered the Royal Academy of Dance, majoring in ballet. 
However, due to an accidental spinal injury, Michelle Yeoh had to give up ballet and study drama instead, eventually graduating with a bachelor's degree in dance drama. At the age of 20, Michelle Yeoh returned to Malaysia, and at the insistence of her mother, she participated in the Malaysian beauty contest and took it offLaurels。Later, he represented Malaysia in the Miss World pageant and won"Miss Melbourne".of honors. 
Michelle Yeoh also got the opportunity to shoot commercials, and cooperated with Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat. Pan Disheng, a wealthy businessman, also admired Michelle Yeoh very much, led her into the film industry, and began the road of an actor. At that time, Michelle Yeoh was still showing people as a "pure little flower", but the competition in the entertainment industry at that time was very fierce, and actors in the same period, such as Lin Qingxia, Wang Zuxian, Maggie Cheung, Zhong Chuhong, Guan Zhilin, were all first-class beauties, so at the beginning of her debut, she did not cause any sparks. Michelle Yeoh also understands that she does not have an advantage in taking this path. Coupled with the fact that Chinese is not good, memorizing lines is also very difficult for her, so comedy movies that require line skills are hopeless. 
Michelle Yeoh thought about it, there are almost no stars among Hong Kong actresses, so it is better to grit your teeth and try it. 
So she found Sammo Hung, hoping to enter the Hung family class to learn martial arts systematically. At first, Sammo Hung was not optimistic about her, thinking that she was weak and pampered, and she would definitely run away after a few days of studying. However, despite being rich since childhood, Michelle Yeoh is not afraid of hardship. She cut off her long hair, appeared in the practice room on time every morning, and walked with a group of big men and played sandbags, and insisted on it for half a year. Her efforts impressed Sammo Hung, so she had the first starring role in her life"Royal Sister".Michelle Yeoh played the role of a vigorous inspector in it, and all kinds of thrilling scenes and difficult actions in it were all played by the 23-year-old Michelle Yeoh herself, and her movements were clean and neat. 
This movie won tens of millions of box office at the time, and it also allowed Michelle Yeoh to successfully transform from a "jade girl" to a "beating girl".
During this period, Pan Disheng has been supporting Michelle Yeoh behind his back, silently giving Michelle Yeoh a lot of resources, and the two gradually fell in love and came together.
In 1988, in the fourth year of their relationship, they finally entered the palace of marriage hand in hand, when Michelle Yeoh was 26 years old. After marriage, Pan Disheng hoped that Michelle Yeoh could return to the family, and Michelle Yeoh did so, she did not take on the drama again, but stayed at home to take care of her husband and stepdaughter. However, she began to feel lost in her wealthy wife's life, doing nothing, and teaching her husband and children, which was not the life Michelle Yeoh wanted. In 1991, at the age of 29, she ended her marriage to Pan Disheng and made a comeback again. After her comeback, Michelle Yeoh started the mode of desperate Sanniang. In 1992, filming "Police Story 3", she accidentally fell from a speeding car and rolled out more than ten meters, causing multiple fractures, and Jackie Chan, who was filming together, was also scared.
In 1995, during the filming of the bridge jumping scene in "Ah Jin's Story", she fell from a bridge of more than 30 meters, broke 3 ribs, and was almost paralyzed.
Director Xu Anhua was so frightened that she cried on the spot, and later thanked Michelle Yeoh at the end of the movie.
is also because the shooting risk factor is too high, Michelle Yeoh, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li have become the three blacklists of the insurance industry.
In this way, Michelle Yeoh has become a well-known big devil in the entertainment industry, and even Jackie Chan has to give her three points. Once, in a foreign interview, Michelle Yeoh also openly called Jackie Chan a joke"Male chauvinistic pig"., just because he thinks that Jackie Chan is too "machismo", he is not afraid of offending the big brother at all.
Because of the wonderful play, Michelle Yeoh was noticed by Hollywood. In 1997, she received an appointment for "007: Tomorrow's Empire" and invited her to play the 18th Bond Girl. Michelle Yeoh is not only the first Bond girl with an Asian face, but also breaks the image of a "vase" in the past where Bond girls can only wait to be saved, and has become a Chinese woman who fights side by side with the male protagonist.
Later, she received "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee, and contributed wonderful fighting scenes on the same stage with Zhang Ziyi. But during filming, she injured her knee again and tore her ligament. In order not to delay the progress, she recuperated for a month and then started filming again. provoked Li Ang to feel distressed and admired. And Michelle Yeoh, who has been focusing on playing, faced a challenge in acting skills in a rivalry with Chow Yun-fat. Ang Lee asked her to refrain from performing the regret of losing her beloved, which was not easy for Michelle Yeoh. Later, she substituted her own experience and finally succeeded. Ang Lee commented on Michelle Yeoh, who was crying so much at the time, in his autobiography, that "I know that what she cried was not only Yu Xiulian's grievances, but her own bitterness over the years." It was also this scene that made Michelle Yeoh start to think about her own drama path and began to challenge more literary dramas. But it is not easy to win the label of "star". In addition, Michelle Yeoh was 38 years old at the time, and there have always been few and single scripts and roles for older women in China, and there are not many protagonists suitable for her. But Michelle Yeoh is not stuck in her own coffee position, even if it is a supporting role, if the script is good and suitable for her, she will take it. For example, in "Memoirs of a Geisha" starring Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li, she played the role of the palace-level geisha in the film. For example, in "Song Family Dynasty", partners Maggie Cheung and Wu Junmei played the eldest sister Song Ailing, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards.
After several unsuccessful relationships, Michelle Yeoh met and fell in love with the CEO of Ferrari at the time, and then shifted the focus of her career to Hollywood. But Asian actors have never been popular in Hollywood, let alone Chinese women, so you can imagine how much resistance there is. Although Michelle Yeoh has starred in many Hollywood movies, she has always been a supporting role that is not outstanding. Although her career is not going well, her love is very happy, her CEO boyfriend has been proposing marriage to her for 18 years, although Michelle Yeoh insists on not getting married, but this has not affected the relationship between the two. At her age, she has a masterpiece of fame, fame, and a boyfriend who loves her, and she could have started to enjoy life. However, she didn't give up, she kept holding on and waiting. Finally, she waited for "Instant Universe", which could make her shine in front of a global audience. Michelle Yeoh said in an interview with "GQ".
"The main character of this movie is an older Asian woman. In reality, such women walk on the road, and no one notices them. They are always busy going home to cook for their families and take care of their children and husbands. This movie gives such a woman a voice and makes such a woman a superhero. ”At one point during the interview, she burst into tears, because this was also her own experience:
"I'm 60 years old. I've played my mother and aunt in the past few years, and I've even been invited to play my grandmother. Now I've finally come across a script that allows me to show what I've learned all my life. Rather than just seeing my age. ”60 years old, Asian, Hollywood protagonist, Golden Globe Awards, behind the superposition of these words, how difficult it is. Tearing down the glass ceiling of age, race, gender, as Michelle Yeoh said, this is a journey and a battle. A netizen said: "40-year-old and 50-year-old actresses are the time when they have the most experience in life, the most mature erotics, the most mellow skills, the strongest vitality, and can even accept and create all positive, negative, beautiful and angry emotions. They were wasted. This also makes people begin to reflect on the pathological aesthetics of excessive pursuit of youth in China, but if there is a trace of wrinkles or old age, it will be criticized. Coupled with the neglect of feminist topics, there are almost no scripts that discuss similar topics, which also leads to middle-aged actresses having no drama to play except for supporting roles such as mothers. And this Golden Globe Award is not only a middle-aged actress Michelle Yeoh, but also the Best Supporting ActressJennifer Kulich- After several years of obscurity in Hollywood, he couldn't get a job, and finally ushered in the peak of his career at the age of 61.
and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Film - 53 years oldCate Blanchett.
What do these glittering women tell us, what can women in their fifties and sixties do? Be able to stick to the work you love, create self-worth, and work hard for your dreams. As Michelle Yeoh said:
"I just want to stand here and accept it all, 40 years and I'm not going to let this go, it's been an incredible journey and a fight, last year I turned 60 and women get older and have fewer and fewer opportunities. But what I want to say is, hey, come on girl, you're doing very, very good. ”So, girls, at all times, take your destiny into your own hands. Only by insisting on learning and working can we truly control our own destiny and have the confidence and ability to walk freely in the world for a lifetime. Never set limits on yourself, now or in the future, you can have any possibility. "Making one's life shine with one's own hands is the happiest thing in life. ”