Jia Ling, who has not been in the same frame as Yang Di for a long time, revealed that her weight increased from 110 to 140, and she said frankly that she could not maintain it.

I recently came across a video, and the comment section was still the same. First, count the size of her face, and then guess how much she weighs. Some people say that she has gained back 140 pounds from 110 pounds, but I think the number is not the point. The point is that she seems to no longer hand over her body to others for grading, but instead takes it back as capital for work.

I have seen this kind of lively weight counting many times. As long as a person appears too thin in front of the camera, it will look like he has to hand in homework every time he appears later. Gaining weight is a step back, losing weight is a step back. No one asked her what she was doing at the moment.

During the early filming of “Hot and Spicy”, she gained weight to about 210 kilograms, and then spent a year losing weight to about 109 or 110 kilograms for reshoots. This weight was originally meant to be temporarily supported for the role, not a daily condition. She herself said that she couldn’t maintain it, she really couldn’t.

I think the most awkward thing about this is that everyone regards “role needs” as “daily standards.” Losing weight during filming is part of the job, and you can’t stay tight after filming. A little fatter and a little thinner, it’s just going to happen.

When she was thin, she praised her self-discipline and her ceiling online. If she is rounder, some people say she is not self-disciplined and that she is a marketer. The same group of people praise and scold each other very quickly, like the needle on a scale.

I also enjoyed reading these discussions at first, but then I found them boring. Everyone is not looking at her as a person, but at a set of numbers. Whether the number is high or low, it can cause a lot of noise.

Regardless of praising or scolding, people are judged as if they were on a weight scale. The audience can tell whether she is relaxed or not, but the performance cannot tell. In the video, she didn’t smile so hard and didn’t hide the lines at the corners of her eyes. This feeling was more real than her jawline.

When you praise her, you say “I understand,” and when you criticize her, you say “it’s stuck in the encore show” and “marketing.” These two words often appear in comments on the same page. I tend to believe that she is sincerely transforming, but I also admit that doubts will not disappear, which just shows that she is still being watched.

The choices she made later were actually more telling than her weight. In September 2024, she cut off her artist management business and stepped down from her management duties. Her old partner’s contract expired and was not renewed. In May 2025, she wholly owned Dawan Entertainment, and her father served as the legal person.

She also declined the Spring Festival Gala, refused to accept sky-high variety shows, and put her time back into scripting and filming. These actions look like “breaking off one’s arms” to outsiders, saying that she is pushing away her national identity. On the contrary, I feel that she is gathering her energy again.

I thought of the jokes she and Yang Di had in the past about “hiding topics” in variety shows. That kind of effortless joy is actually quite similar to her current state. Not every time you show up you have to prove something. If a person holds too many meetings and can’t sleep over a line for a long time, then it’s time to wake up.

This reason is not mysterious, just like ordinary office workers who want to change back to the job they are good at. It’s not about quitting, it’s about changing my identity from boss to craftsman. Her new film “The Flowers Bloom” is an anti-MLM real-life crime theme, which doesn’t sound light.

She traveled to about a dozen provinces, interviewed hundreds of victims and frontline police officers face-to-face, took thousands of hours of transcripts, overturned and rewrote eighteen drafts of the script, and many of her lines came from real interrogation recordings. The photography is by Wang Boxue, and the art is by the team of “Hot and Spicy”. Zhang Xiaofei continues to be a partner, Yang Zi makes her debut as a pure villain, and Zhang Yi and Wang Xiao each play a role. The film is scheduled to be released on August 1, 2026, about two and a half years since the last movie. The lineup and schedule are there, so the pressure will not be small.

There is one detail that I think is very important: her weight gain and loss curve not only provided for one movie. Le Ying climbed up from the bottom, Shan Yuan endured eight years in the quagmire, playing two roles in one body. She is not maintaining a beautiful number, but using her body as a creative material.

Looking at the two and a half years together, cutting off the agent, handing over to the company, rejecting the Spring Festival Gala, and polishing the eighteenth draft, it is like peeling off the old shell layer by layer. It wasn’t a sudden change in temperament or a sudden thought, it was just that she put down the chores that needed to be put down. Do the work that needs to be done and leave the rest to time.