89-year-old nude model keeps posing with pride despite opposition from family

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89-year-old nude model keeps posing with pride despite opposition from family

 

Wang Suzhong poses for painters during an art class.//Photo: VCG

 

Wang Suzhong, 89, is probably the most famous nude model among all the university art departments in Sichuan province, according to Global Times online.

 

He is so fond of his job that he has been at it for six years now even though his children have threatened to disown him, saying that they "won't bury him after he dies."

 

Wang said that his children have a "feudal" mindset, and that he likes working as a nude model. Since he took up the job, Wang has been living alone.

 

The job itself sounds easy. All Wang needs to do is pose nude in front of art students so they may paint him during class. He attends three classes in the morning and two in the afternoon, with each class running 45 minutes and then a 15 minute break. 

 

Having studied dressmaking after graduating from middle school, Wang has a very artistic outlook on life. He said he believes working as a nude model should not be considered all that unusual, and should be viewed from an artistic perspective.

 

Before he began modeling, Wang used to spend his retirement mostly in the park, singing or playing mahjong. He later gave up playing mahjong since placing bets became too expensive and often would result in getting into quarrels with others.

 

Despite his age, Wang is still healthy and spry. Before heading to work, he takes great pains to tidy up his silver hair, which students say makes him look like an immortal straight out of Chinese legend. 

 

As news of Wang began to spread, he was invited to act in Free Renting, a film about an elderly man in Chongqing who is also an "empty-nest" senior citizen just like him. To fight off loneliness, Wang's character offers free-rent accommodation to young people and eventually dies alone despite having children. Wang noted that he just might end up like the character he played due to his job. 

 

No matter the weather, Wang never arrives late for work, unlike some students. He said he doesn't remember how many students have drawn his nude body over the years, but that he has kept some of the better drawings. 

 

As to when he plans to finally stop, he said he will keep at it for as long as his health allows.

 

Wang displays some of the drawings of him that students have painted. Photo: VCG

 

Wang takes a break in his apartment, where he lives by himself. Photo: VCG

 

Wang has lunch at a university canteen. Photo: VCG

 

Wang exercises in his residential community. Photo: VCG 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342844

 

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[Odysseus123]

Brilliant story.

 

It is a human world, after all.

[Carib]

Way to go Wang, don't let them Wang you.

[Samui Bodoh]

Go Grandpa Go!

 

I only hope that if I reach that age, I will have the same spirit...

 

Good on you....

[simoh1490]

Brilliant, a win win.

[Somtamnication]

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

[geriatrickid]

Cool fellow.

[HLover]

3 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

I think that is a man model....

[RichardColeman]

43 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

Next wage packet went on the opticians and not the off-licence I guess.

[DoctorG]

It's funny how children can often be more prudish than their parents.

[Anak Nakal]

I have respect for him.

I hope he work until 100!

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

a friend of mine did that for a bet with a randy 70 year old woman, afterwards he threw up and needed therapy.

[UnkleMoooose]

Wang doesn't seem to have a wang. Asians I guess.............

[klauskunkel]

Nothing Wong with you, Wang! 

[ujayujay]

4 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

ahem....to him

[Krataiboy]

There's not a lot the West can learn from China, but this is an obvious exception. Ageism has become endemic in the so-called developed world, with the young generally taught to regard old folk as surplus to requirements.

 

Unless, of course, they happen to be in government!

[watcharacters]

4 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

More power to her. I lost my virginity to a 65 year old, after asking her to buy some wine outside a liquor store back when I was 17.....and....and.....she bought it, we went to her place and BAAM! 

 

Lovely people.

 

 

Unless  there's been a sex change operation, I thing Mr. Wang is a "HE". 

[ballpoint]

20 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

Unless  there's been a sex change operation, I thing Mr. Wang is a "HE". 

At that age, what does it really matter?

 

[soalbundy]

7 hours ago, DoctorG said:

It's funny how children can often be more prudish than their parents.

Older people have the benefit of experience, life is no longer black or white, good or bad, it just is. They are, or should be, confident enough in themselves not to care what anyone thinks.

[soalbundy]

7 hours ago, DoctorG said:

It's funny how children can often be more prudish than their parents.

Older people have the benefit of experience, life is no longer black or white, good or bad, it just is. They are, or should be, confident enough in themselves not to care what anyone thinks.