“Jenny, I have a special treat for you today.” Johnny winked at Jenny from behind the bar, “A cup of coffee and a snack, please in the store.”
“Thanks, John.” Jenny’s shift is over, and her legs are sore after eight hours of standing. “A glass of American-style unsweetened milk, and a seagull salad without vinaigrette, thank you.”
Johnny gave her a few curious looks, “Are you on a diet? I’m sorry, Jane, but I don’t see why it’s necessary.”
Jenny smiled and didn’t explain anything. Instead, she took the packed meal from Johnny and waved him. “See you tomorrow.”
“See you tomorrow.” Johnny also waved his hand in a good-tempered manner, “Be nice to yourself, Jane.”
Jenny walked out of the restaurant, stooped to unhook her bicycle, jumped on it and rode to her house.
She lives not far from restaurants, and is lucky not to go up and down, which is rare in Los Angeles, where the mountain roads are winding. Chen Zhen discovered this on the first day she went to work after waking up, and immediately spent her day’s wages on a second-hand market to buy a bicycle.
After riding for 20 minutes, she returned to her rented place—a small house with one bedroom and one living room in a middle-aged apartment about twenty years old without an elevator.
Because labor is more expensive in the United States, there is not much difference between white-collar and blue-collar income. Jenny works as a waiter in a restaurant with a basic salary of 80 US dollars a day. Shifts can earn more than 200 dollars a day, but it is relatively hard. If you work on one shift a day, you can even get about 130 dollars in tips, and your monthly income is about 4,000 dollars. The house is a rent-controlled apartment. Although the location is close to Beverly Hills, the monthly rent is only 600 US dollars, which can be regarded as the inheritance left by the former Jenny to Chen Zhen.
The restaurant includes a meal. If you are as sweet as Jenny and have the effect of attracting business, the boss Johnny will be more generous. He will often include two meals, or give her an extra package. After all, Jenny is actually There is no need to spend more money on food, and even the coffee and hot dog restaurants that Americans love most can be provided for free, and there is no cost after deducting the rent from one month’s income.
Based on the prices in Los Angeles, it is easy to save two thousand dollars a month for buying fruits, clothes, cosmetics and so on. ——However, Jenny Jane, like most Americans, has no sense of savings, especially as a beautiful Hollywood girl who wants to enter the showbiz, she is even more impossible to think about the future and save money from small things. Chen Zhen is only glad that she at least has no credit card debts, which is already rare among American girls of her age.
Of course, Jenny Jane did not leave her any ‘inheritance’. She spent most of her salary on buying clothes and shoes. In this small house with one bedroom and one living room, the living room is the cloakroom Hundreds of pairs of shoes), and the rest of her salary was used to buy acting courses. When Chen Zhenjiu took over the magpie’s nest, she still had an acting course at a community college that she hadn’t finished. As for other expenses, there are basically no other expenses. Although she likes to go to nightclubs with her friends, she has her own privileges as a beauty, and everyone knows it.
I have to say that Jenny Jane is actually a rare and motivated girl. Although she has an unrealistic dream of becoming famous, she is still living seriously and accumulating bit by bit to realize her dream. If she also has a certain amount of talent and the luck of winning big prizes, maybe she will have a place in Hollywood in the future, but now, the original she has gone to nowhere, and the person who realizes her dream of becoming famous can only be Chen Zhen.
As soon as Chen Zhen got home, she changed into sportswear. She walked back and forth in the house first, and quickly finished chores such as cleaning the room. Turned on the newly purchased computer, clicked on Winamp, and danced Latin dance to the fiery music.
After an hour of Latin dancing and fifteen minutes of stretching to relax, her body had probably reached its limit. Chen Zhen fell to the ground and took a nap for about twenty minutes until she was woken up by the cool wind. Then he got up to take a shower and wash his hair, and then started his busy night maintenance routine.
Actually, Johnny is right. Her figure can be said to be very well-proportioned and fit. As a woman with a height of five feet seven inches and a bust of D, Jenny usually wears a size 4 (S), which is already very large among white people. Rare. She doesn’t have to exercise in such a hurry to lose weight. As long as she doesn’t deliberately eat and drink, standing for eight hours a day is enough to maintain her figure.
But this is for ordinary people, no matter whether they are actresses, singers or models, as long as they are connected with the entertainment industry and the camera, ordinary bodybuilding will never be enough.
Because of the broadcasting ratio adopted by modern film and television, and the conversion of three-dimensional and two-dimensional, “photogenic fat ten catties” is not a common saying used by fat people to comfort themselves, but a real phenomenon, and it is very likely that after being photogenic The visual effect is more than ten catties – because the human eye sees it as three-dimensional, shadows and shades and contours will be processed, but film and television images are two-dimensional, which is equivalent to flattening a person, of course the face and figure will be changed fatter than before. Therefore, in order to achieve the effect of a normal person on camera, the face must be smaller than normal people in life. Forcing themselves to lose weight, the lucky ones who are born with deep and layered facial features can put in less effort, but this does not mean that they can eat and drink. Those practitioners who are still a bit ambitious about their acting career and don’t want to play fat people will almost never have a full day, the difference is only in how to starve themselves.
Of course, there is a price for this. In reality, a normal person or an actor who is thinner than a photogenic person has a terribly small face, not to mention that he is basically a clothes hanger without meat. On the contrary, most of them have the problem of being too thin. Not to mention the hidden dangers of health, just love has obstacles, after all, most normal people still want to be with normal people, at least, it looks like this…
Chen Zhen is lucky. In her previous life, she joined the fun and lost weight for four years when she was studying in her previous life. Because she has a boyfriend, and the other party likes that her girlfriend has a little meat, so she didn’t starve herself too much. After graduating, she got married as a matter of course and became a wealthy young lady. Although she also thought about maintaining her figure, her strength was not the same as that of people in the circle. As for this life, Jenny Jane should be of pure Germanic blood. This kind of blood has deep facial features, and the outline is as clear as a sculpture. The disadvantage is that she looks old in middle age, but the advantage is that she has a sense of layering on the camera, with shadow effects, and she looks very thin .
Oldness can be made up with makeup, but fat can’t. In terms of being photogenic, I have to admit that Caucasians have racial advantages. In addition, Western aesthetics are not fanatical in pursuit of thinness, so she You don’t have to be like your Chinese counterparts, who are dedicated to straightening and starving themselves in the direction of white bones and matchsticks. You only need to lose excess fat through a lot of exercise and maintain your body at a standard that is one size thinner than normal people.
—that is, her short-term goal is to wear a size 2 dress.
She doesn’t have the physical strength to go to the gym one more time, and she doesn’t have the money to hire a personal trainer, but fortunately, when she was a rich wife in her previous life, in order to maintain her figure, she always had the habit of exercising regularly, and she even danced Latin dance for many years out of personal hobbies , so you can exercise in your own room. As for skipping dinner, abstaining from sugar milk and saying no to oil and vinegar sauce, these are all part of the problem of weight loss, almost Chen Zhen’s instinct, even in her previous life, she hadn’t eaten much of these things .
In an eight-hour shift, it takes 40 minutes to cycle back and forth to work, and one and a half hours of exercising after returning home. Chen Zhen’s body is almost at its limit. At six o’clock, when the alarm rang, she got up on time again, drank water, ran for an hour in the morning, came back to take a shower, and then sat down to eat the most important meal of her day.
Taking out the salad packed yesterday, boiled two more eggs, added a piece of boiled chicken breast for herself, and added a large glass of milk. After sweeping away this hearty meal, her stomach finally Started to feel full. Chen Zhen felt that this white man’s body was resistant to physical conditions. After such a high-intensity exercise, he would be full of energy once he woke up and had a meal.
After breakfast, there was still an hour and a half before going to work, she was not idle, but sat in a yoga position in the living room, set the alarm clock, took a deep breath, and activated her gold finger.
When the golden finger moved, Chen Zhen suddenly fell into darkness.