Chinese Weather Woman Stuns The World By Not Aging For 22 Years On Screen, And Here’s The Proof
We all have that one friend who, while everyone else descends into middle age with a certain paunchy weariness, is somehow still recognizable from their senior yearbook photos. Even down to that irritatingly youthful and carefree grin. How do they it? That’s exactly what people have been asking about Yang Dan, a 44-year-old weather woman from China’s state broadcaster CCTV.
A video of Ms. Yang have recently gone viral on Chinese social media, showing her at work over her 22 year stint as weather presenter. Astonishingly, she looks almost exactly the same as when she began her job as a 22-year-old back in 1996, when the Spice Girls ruled the airwaves and we were in thrall to snake, on our Nokia phones.
The video was originally shared by the weather program to mark International Woman’s Day, with the caption, “Many web users have grown up watching her show. They marveled why they have grown older but she hasn’t. What’s more? It appears she is younger and younger.”
Now being referred to as the ‘ageless goddess,’ the award-winning weather presenter has left people scratching their heads with wonder at what her secret could be. Some even joked that it was a conspiracy, and all 22 years worth of weather reports were filmed in a single day. How else to explain it? It’s either that, or the mythical fountain of youth is definitely located somewhere in China!
Scroll down below to check out the pics for yourself, and feel free to share your own anti-aging tips in the comments!
More info: Chinese Government Website (h/t: dailymail)
Watch the video below to see her through the years
Kind of shocked by the fact that 1996 was 22 years ago as well.
Lies! 1996 was like 4 years ago
EXACTLY! Everyone around us has gone insane.
I honestly am too for some reason but I was BORN in 1996
goddamned is it been that long?
Yeah, I understand what you mean. I retired from the Navy in 1990.
She definitely looks nice, but she also definitely has aged. If you compare the oldest and newest images you can see she's lost her childhood roundness in her face and has more defined adult features.
Yep. She looks about 16 in the first one and about 22 in the last.
While you can fool people by putting make up or even botoxed (not that I accusing her of having one) your face, your hands and neck would still reveal your real age
I've always heard this, and dang is it true! My face has always liked younger than my age. I was annoyed when I was about 20, but I love it now. However my hands look terrible! Can you get hand treatments? Yikes, my hands need some help--scars, intense dryness, the works!
For the last 45 years I've been counting the wrinkles on my nutsack to see if they increase with age. So far, nada.
Great genes and Good Makeup. The genetic key is late puberty. The later one enters puberty, the longer lived and more youthful one looks. At 73 I am constantly assumed to be in my mid 50s. And it was because I didn't enter puberty until I was about three months from turning 16. I always considered it a curse, but not any longer. I got this from my Mother's genes. She will be 95 the later part of this month, and she doesn't look a day over 80. And she drives all over the SouthEast to visit relatives on a consistent basis.
The puberty thing isn't true at all. It's just genes as to whether you look older or not. I have always looked younger than my age, and get mistaken for 10 years younger all the time, and I entered puberty at 12.
Yeah, I'm with Beans on this one. I'm 30 but I'm a teacher at a junior high (7th - 9th grade, our school district is a bit different) and I get mistaken as a student by parents very frequently. I started my period right when I turned 13, so pretty much the same time the majority of my peers did too. I always wear sunscreen, and my brothers all look younger than that are. Genes & taking care of your skin to prevent premature aging can be factors.
And the lovely humid air helps keep your skin self as well :) I hope she has great travels!
Aha! That explains a lot. All my life people thought that I was younger than my actual age. Now I’m 47 and they still do. I’m really happy with that.
Yeah, I'd like to support such a theory, it sounds good on paper, but both my mother and me went through early puberty (11) and she has the same numbers as you (she's 75 looking 55), while I'm approaching 40 and always get a solid 22. It's genes for sure... although I personally have always blamed my acne that lasted until I was 30-something for keeping my skin moist and supple lol.
I'm with you - I so thought I was cursed - no period until 15, looking like a gradeschooler into my late teens (as long as those late-blooming boobs weren't showing), getting carded at 22 for 18 - but boy that annoyance of mine went away very quickly! I loved getting carded at 35 (last time for 18) & 45 (last time for 21). I just got carded for 30 five years ago (I'm retired, in my 60s, now) I'm getting carded again LOL for those Senior discounts no one seems to think I should get! This lady looks ageless :D
Kind of shocked by the fact that 1996 was 22 years ago as well.
Lies! 1996 was like 4 years ago
EXACTLY! Everyone around us has gone insane.
I honestly am too for some reason but I was BORN in 1996
goddamned is it been that long?
Yeah, I understand what you mean. I retired from the Navy in 1990.
She definitely looks nice, but she also definitely has aged. If you compare the oldest and newest images you can see she's lost her childhood roundness in her face and has more defined adult features.
Yep. She looks about 16 in the first one and about 22 in the last.
While you can fool people by putting make up or even botoxed (not that I accusing her of having one) your face, your hands and neck would still reveal your real age
I've always heard this, and dang is it true! My face has always liked younger than my age. I was annoyed when I was about 20, but I love it now. However my hands look terrible! Can you get hand treatments? Yikes, my hands need some help--scars, intense dryness, the works!
For the last 45 years I've been counting the wrinkles on my nutsack to see if they increase with age. So far, nada.
Great genes and Good Makeup. The genetic key is late puberty. The later one enters puberty, the longer lived and more youthful one looks. At 73 I am constantly assumed to be in my mid 50s. And it was because I didn't enter puberty until I was about three months from turning 16. I always considered it a curse, but not any longer. I got this from my Mother's genes. She will be 95 the later part of this month, and she doesn't look a day over 80. And she drives all over the SouthEast to visit relatives on a consistent basis.
The puberty thing isn't true at all. It's just genes as to whether you look older or not. I have always looked younger than my age, and get mistaken for 10 years younger all the time, and I entered puberty at 12.
Yeah, I'm with Beans on this one. I'm 30 but I'm a teacher at a junior high (7th - 9th grade, our school district is a bit different) and I get mistaken as a student by parents very frequently. I started my period right when I turned 13, so pretty much the same time the majority of my peers did too. I always wear sunscreen, and my brothers all look younger than that are. Genes & taking care of your skin to prevent premature aging can be factors.
And the lovely humid air helps keep your skin self as well :) I hope she has great travels!
Aha! That explains a lot. All my life people thought that I was younger than my actual age. Now I’m 47 and they still do. I’m really happy with that.
Yeah, I'd like to support such a theory, it sounds good on paper, but both my mother and me went through early puberty (11) and she has the same numbers as you (she's 75 looking 55), while I'm approaching 40 and always get a solid 22. It's genes for sure... although I personally have always blamed my acne that lasted until I was 30-something for keeping my skin moist and supple lol.
I'm with you - I so thought I was cursed - no period until 15, looking like a gradeschooler into my late teens (as long as those late-blooming boobs weren't showing), getting carded at 22 for 18 - but boy that annoyance of mine went away very quickly! I loved getting carded at 35 (last time for 18) & 45 (last time for 21). I just got carded for 30 five years ago (I'm retired, in my 60s, now) I'm getting carded again LOL for those Senior discounts no one seems to think I should get! This lady looks ageless :D