GUILIN (China) • A video of a man who decided to dress as a woman for 20 years to help his mentally ill mother cope with the death of his sister has gone viral in China..
GUILIN (China) • A video of a man who decided to dress as a woman for 20 years to help his mentally ill mother cope with the death of his sister has gone viral in China.
The man, who is in his 50s and hails from Guilin in the Guangxi region, is shown wearing a white cheongsam with blue floral prints as he tends to his elderly mother. He also sports wavy, shoulder-length hair.
The 90-second clip put up by Pear Video on social media platform Weibo has since racked up more than 4.3 million views.
It was also shared widely on major news websites in China.
After the man’s mother began to show signs of mental illness when her daughter died, he began dressing as a woman and has been doing so ever since.
