In 2008, a story about Zeng vying to become a model, together with a series of offbeat photos of her, including one half naked, were published in a Nanjing newspaper and its affiliated website.
　　2008年，一家南京媒體在其報紙及網站上發表了曾晶立志成為模特的故事，同時刊登了她的一組個性寫真照，包括一張半裸照。

　　The photos received tens of thousands of hits and comments that day and were linked by numerous portals.
　　這組照片的點擊量過萬，成千上萬的網友跟帖評論。許多門戶網站也將其轉載發布。

　　"I think she is amazingly beautiful," commented one of the netizens, "It seems a bit unfair that overweight girls have long been excluded from the notion of beauty."
　　一位網友評論到：“我認為她美極了。長久以來胖女孩一直與美麗絕緣，這似乎有點不公平。”