{"id":10302,"date":"2011-09-12T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:59:21","slug":"hong-kong-actress-admits-she-was-once-a-kept-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10302","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong actress admits she was once a kept woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Veteran Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen spoke about her experiences as a kept woman and dating a married man, in a recent interview with a Hong Kong tabloid, reported Hong Kong media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yuen said that she got involved with a wealthy businessman, who was already seeing someone, <strong>shortly after she was crowned Miss Hong Kong in 1990 at 18<\/strong>, a time when she had a ton of film offers to star in various productions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here she is in &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Woman, Who&#8217;s the Man&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MFVM-27twg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t understand why I would accept the &#8216;care&#8217; of a wealthy man, and become a &#8216;third party&#8217;, but I didn&#8217;t think there was anything wrong with the relationship at the time,&#8221; explained Yuen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was simple. There was someone courting me and I accepted. The relationship was a happy one. He bought me flowers on my birthday. I didn&#8217;t feel like a kept woman and had feelings for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It just happens that he has strong finances and he made me happy,&#8221;<\/strong> added the 40-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was a &#8216;third party&#8217;, the happiness eclipsed everything else. Of course, as I matured over the years, I knew I had hurt someone. Fortunately, I turned back just in time and did not do as much damage as I could have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yuen had previously revealed that she had been someone&#8217;s mistress during an interview with TVB General Manager Stephen Chan in 2007, but this was the first time she went into detail about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why she would spill the beans on such a scandal, Yuen explained that it was &#8220;something I really did&#8221; and felt that there was nothing wrong about admitting it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely feel that it was a happy relationship and a happy memory. It was just because of my identity, background that people find it problematic. Why can&#8217;t I admit to it?&#8221; said the actress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yuen, who married actor husband Julian Cheung in 2001<\/strong>, also believed that it was better to openly talk about her past than lie about it to their five-year-old son Morton Cheung, lest she loses his trust.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband said that he did not mind Yuen&#8217;s past, as he too had been quite the wild child in his youth.<\/p>\n<p><em>via channelnewsasia.com<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen spoke about her experiences as a kept woman and dating a married man, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1006],"tags":[2115],"class_list":["post-10302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating-relationship","tag-dating"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-300x225.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-768x576.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-1024x768.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-1536x1152.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-392x272.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-390x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-800x445.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-1400x600.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-1155x480.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-600x417.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-285x450.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eclipse-575x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Veteran Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen spoke about her experiences as a kept woman and dating a married man, in","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Dating &amp; 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