Although no one ever asked to weigh her, Nguyen recalls a constant fear of being exposed. "I've never spoken about those experiences before, because I feared that people would laugh at me for the lengths I took to come to Taiwan.
雖然始終沒被要求「秤重」，提筆寫下這段往事時，阮氏穿仍記得當時藏東藏西、深怕「露餡」的心情：「以前不說這段往事，是怕別人笑我們想盡辦法來台灣工作。