Even glamourous celebrities suffer from occupational hazards too.

For two years veteran actress Xiang Yun cannot lift her head.

In an interview with Lianhe Wanbao, the actress revealed that while shooting of the 1998 series "The Royal Monk", the spinal vertebrae at her neck was displaced.

The outdoor shoot on location in China had taken place in the wilderness at punishing winter temperatures of under four-degrees.

In the execution scene she was playing , her hands and legs were tied down in a horse carriage.

The bumps of the road made transporting a great pain for her. Combined with her immobility, the up and downs of rough rocking on the carriage caused her spinal vertebrae to be displaced.

When she got off the carriage, her neck was totally stiff. From then on she had to have a body double to perform her stunts.

Like Xiang Yun, actress Aileen Tan also suffered from the rigours of acting.

In her 2001 shoot of the series "The Ultimate Mission", she fell off from a two-storey high "Flying fox" platform.

For that, Aileen sustained a cracked shoulder blade, swelling on parts of her head, and her lower half body was covered in bruises.

She was hospitalised immediately, and given three anaesthetic shots to numb the pain. It took the actress two whole months for her wounds to heal.

But because she decided against an operation to prevent scarring on her skin, her shoulder blade now has an unnatural protusion.