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Angelababy in photos as the Chinese model and actress turns 30

  • Having started out as a model at 13, Angela Yeung Wing aka Angelababy is now one of China’s most famous faces
  • With the actress turning 30 tomorrow, we look back at her life in pictures from the SCMP archives

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Angela Yeung Wing – the Chinese model and actress better known as Angelababy – has come a long way since she first experienced fame as one of Hong Kong’s notorious “pseudo models” in the late noughties.

After starting out as a model at the age of 13, Yeung is now one of China’s most famous faces and highest-paid actresses, placing eighth on the 2017 Forbes China Celebrity List.

Her wedding to Chinese actor-singer Huang Xiaoming in 2015 was one of the most lavish in China’s history, costing a reported US$31 million, and the couple had their first child in 2017.
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A week after their wedding, Yeung famously passed an inspection by a doctor as part of her defamation lawsuit against a Chinese plastic surgery clinic that had accused her of going under the knife.

Angelababy as a teenager and in 2011.
Angelababy as a teenager and in 2011.
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All this, and she’s only turning 30 tomorrow. To celebrate the birthday of one of the queens of Chinese celebrity, let’s take a look at her life so far in these pictures from the South China Morning Post archives.

Angelababy in 2007 when she was 18 modelling at a “hair fantasy” show organised by City University final year students studying for an associate of arts degree in English for professional communication. Photo: Steve Cray
Angelababy in 2007 when she was 18 modelling at a “hair fantasy” show organised by City University final year students studying for an associate of arts degree in English for professional communication. Photo: Steve Cray
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