Profile | Chinese-American ‘comedy queen’ Jiaoying Summers born and raised in rural China, reveals childhood taunts about weight
- Netflix star is a chat show regular, comedy club owner, and in Asian Hall of Fame
- Comic with 1.3 million TikTok followers does stand-up routines about East Asian family life
A famous Chinese-American stand-up comedian known as the “comedy queen” on social media has revealed she was taunted by her mother who called her “ugly and fat” when she was a child.
Jiaoying Summers, 34, whose Chinese name is Liang Jiaoying, was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2021.
The comedian and actress, who regularly appears on talk shows, has starred in a Netflix show and owns two comedy clubs in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Comedy and The Pasadena Comedy.
Summers has 1.3 million followers on TikTok, receiving more than one billion views for her videos which focus on combating Asian racism and representing Asians.
She was born and raised in a village in China’s central province of Henan, where she was criticised by her mother because of her appearance, the Chinese news outlet myzaker.com reported.
“Occasionally there was someone who complimented my looks. My mum would shake her head and say, ‘How could it be possible? You are just a little black girl. Your mouth is like that of a pig,’” Summers recalled.
