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She comes across like she’s nonchalant about her age. Talk to her about hitting the big 4-0 and she laughs it off. Age, Ann says, is not something she thinks about, though she does let on that she feels more at ease now in mind and body.

Oh, yes, that age-time-defying body. Those who caught this year’s Star Awards must have eyeballed Ann wearing a fishnet bodysuit with a Hervé Léger dress so scandalous that we blushed, and then rated it ‘XXX’ in our red carpet review. Sure, Rui En won Best Actress and Joanne Peh made her public debut with new beau Qi Yuwu, but it was Bombshell Ann who, ahem, double-torpedoed the spotlight from every actress that night with her assets.

8DAYS: Speaking of friends, your BFF is Jesseca Liu, in the mid-noughties, she was part of the rising crop of new actresses like Jeanette Aw, Rui En, and Joanne Peh who signalled a changing of guard on TV. Did you feel threatened by these younger girls?

Ann: No. I don’t belong to their group and they don’t belong to mine. So, yeah…though it did cross my mind that maybe…there’ll be fewer opportunities to act, but that’s about it.

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