In 1853, the United States threatened Japan with gunboats to open its doors, which is known in history as the "Black Ship Incident".
However, there is also a girl of mixed race from the United States, China, the Philippines, France and the United States, who shocked the Japanese photo industry with her great charm, so she was known as the "black ship of the graphic modeling industry".
She is Leah Desan, the goddess of many boys' dreams.
In April 2006, 19-year-old Leah Dessan went to Japan to develop and quickly became popular, and in 2007, she appeared on the "Red and White Song Club" and was active in television, magazines, advertising and other fields for 2 years.
However, just as her career was at its peak, Leah Dessan suddenly announced her marriage and pregnancy, and then slowly faded out of show business.
Today, Leah Dessan is living in California with her 13-year-old daughter "Meilan", and the man who made her desperate to announce the marriage has divorced her for two years.
Fortunately, the daughter became the sustenance of Leah Dessan.
Leah Dessan would call the child who was changing her teeth "mouse", and would shyly hide the music videos and photos released during her development in Japan, and then say to her daughter, "I'll show it to you next time."
Although Leah Dessan has a very seductive appearance, she is indeed a shy girl at heart.
"I'm scared to be on TV," she often puts on her lips.
Perhaps the choice to retreat from the rapids was not purely out of the consideration of love.
Leah Dessan's father loved to play the piano and guitar, and the family often sang together. Before entering secondary school, she began to study dance, performed drama and chorus in school, and chose to attend an acting school that valued the performing arts.
For Leah Desan, the purpose of traveling to Japan was to become a singer like Hikaru Utada and Mai Kuraki.
Unfortunately, she was immediately touted as the "black ship of the flat modeling world" and had to wear very little clothing and pose in front of the camera.
After the explosion, her personal time was also less.
According to her personal statement, the first six months after her debut were not so busy, and she only worked once every two days, and even felt a little lonely. But then it suddenly became very busy, and life was work, work, and work again.
"I still wanted to focus on music, but I had to take pictures, I had to go on TV, I had to learn Japanese, and in that situation, I didn't have time to face myself."
Leah Dessan complains in private that work completely disrupts her rhythm, doesn't get enough rest and sleep, and the pressure is growing, because Japanese is not her native language, so it's hard to fully express what she wants to say when she's in a hurry.
"The pace of speech on TV was very fast and I had to react right away. It's a world where the mind has to spin fast, but I'm not like that. ”
She also pretended not to speak Japanese well to avoid many interviews and jobs — but none of this helped, and even people created a "a little strange to speak Japanese" setting that made her cry and laugh.
Therefore, in the end, she chose to end her acting career by getting married, which was not a good idea.
In October 2008, on the last day of her national tour, Leah Dessan announced her marriage and pregnancy.
When she said this, it was shocking to the fans, and to herself, it was relief.
Leah Dessan's fans slowly diminished until finally her acting job was gone.
In 2010, after a complete breakdown in her relationship with her husband, she decided to divorce her.
Leah Dessan returned to the United States, a more familiar homeland than Japan.
Today, she enters drama school to study acting, while studying psychology.
She also became a social worker in California, taking care of the elderly and people with limited mobility when she had time.
She said: "After leaving the show business, for a long time, I felt that the work still had to be like then. At that time, I was the center of the whole, and now I have to focus on the other person. ”
But Leah Dessan has never regretted the choice to become an idol.
She admits that it is precisely because she went to Japan that she can have such a variety of experiences as she has now.
However, the thing that made her feel most regretless was to become a mother.
Although the relationship with her husband after marriage was not harmonious, although she felt very painful, she still believed that becoming a mother was the biggest and best experience in her life.
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