Single ladies of Asia who are past conventional marriageable age — there is hope.
Just look at 41-year-old pop diva Karen Mok who gleefully announced on stage that she is going to marry her high school sweetheart this year, after they reunited at a high school reunion.
Mok’s announcement is a slap in the face of society for every snide remark it has ever made about “leftover women” — when they do finally get married, it is in the most phenomenal and fairytale manner.
Also read Tracy You on: The stigma of being single in Shanghai.
Hong Kong has a lot of single ladies. About 10 percent of the population is single and female, between the ages of 18-60. That means, for every five women, there is one “leftover woman.”
But no worries ladies, you are in good company. The world is full of hot women who for one reason or another remain unwed. But they get on with their lives and their careers just fine.
Check out these rich and famous leftover women in Asia, or the more apt moniker “golden spinsters.”
Shu “did soft porn” Qi, aged 35
Wild child Shu Qi has famously said that her clearest childhood memories were of being chased by her father with a stick. She was a naughty one who needed to be beaten into submission. Or something like that.
When she turned 16, she capitalized on her physical assets and became a star in soft porn. Shu has since achieved the miraculous feat of going from B-erotica to A-list actress.
Her most tabloid-worthy romance was with Leon Lai, one of Cantopop’s Four Heavenly Kings. Even though the pair split in 2005, the press still like to use it as a reference point, kind of like the Brad and Jen split in the States.
In her interviews, Shu has said that the breakup was one of the worst of her life and that it was probably because Lai’s father could not accept her porno past.
They say she’s still single because … once you’re a porn star, always will you carry a whiff of the porn star. And she’s probably still pining after Leon Lai.
Gigi “too tall” Leung, aged 35
Hong Kong actress and pop-star Gigi Leung Wing-kei of the endless legs, anime eyes and cutesy hair manages to maintain an air of the ageless ingenue about her. But the lady is well into her thirties.
Nowadays known more for her weibo than her singing, Leung’s romantic history is marked by a dramatic split with fellow crooner-actor Ekin Cheng (no. 14 on our most beautiful men list) in 2005. The two were in a solid relationship for about 6 years and their coupledom was taken for granted by the Hong Kong public.
A feng shui master even went on the record to predict the pair would wed in 2005 — or split forever. The latter prediction became reality and a spate of bad press followed for Leung.
Bouncing back from the tabloid and personal drama, Leung dated a couple of foreigners in subsequent years, but none of them have blossomed into marriage.
They say she’s still single because … it is rumored that Leung can be bossy and demanding, her height of 176cm is daunting for most vertically-challenged men in Hong Kong and, perhaps most importantly, her mother seems to have influence over her choice of mate.
Rosamund Kwan, anti-ageing poster child-woman, aged 49
Some women age gracefully and some women just don’t age at all. Rosamund Kwan, retired actress-sex-symbol, is one such woman with enviable DNA.
In 1981, Kwan married tycoon Wang Guosheng after dating him for two months. The divorce came just nine months later. Few could see that coming.
Kwan then occupied gossip columns with her high-profile romances, such as one with tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-Hung and the mildly scandalous relationship with model Jimmy Wong Ga-lok who is eight years younger than Kwan.
On breaking up with Jimmy Wong, Kwan has said: “Wong is a simple, decent person, I can only put the blame on the fact that my world is more complicated than his!”
They say she’s still single because … as Kwan says herself, she’s “complicated.”
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