Editing Ruby Lin (section)

==Early life==
Lin was born and raised in [[Wugu District|Wugu]], [[New Taipei City]], Taiwan. Her father was a businessman, and her mother a housewife. Her English name, Ruby, is from her mother's love of the [[Ruby|jewel]].<ref name="intro3">{{cite web |date=May 4, 2003 |title=Ruby Lin Xin Ru - the actress with personality ways |url=http://hello2ruby.lettersfrom.us/html/0070.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928050202/http://hello2ruby.lettersfrom.us/html/0070.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> As the eldest of four children in family, Lin has two younger brothers—one a year younger and the other six years younger—and a half-sister, ten years younger, from her father’s second marriage after divorcing from Lin's mother when Lin was 7. After her parents' divorce, Lin lived with her mother, who took her to visit relatives in Japan every year.<ref name="family">{{cite web | url = http://www.longhoo.net/gb/longhoo/news2004/njmedia/wenhua/userobject1ai565545.html | title = 心如三十 Ruby, Thirty | date = November 10, 2006 | publisher = longhoo.net | language = zh | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071224212340/http://www.longhoo.net/gb/longhoo/news2004/njmedia/wenhua/userobject1ai565545.html | archive-date = December 24, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="coverstory">{{cite web |date=December 8, 2003 |title=April 2001, Taiwan TV program "Cover story" 封面人物-林心如 |url=http://www.sunshineruby.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3246&lang=chinese_gb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005234542/http://www.sunshineruby.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3246&lang=chinese_gb |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |publisher=sunshineruby forum |language=zh |format=Interview clip |df=mdy-all}}</ref> She graduated from Ri Xin Primary School and Zhong Dian High School.<ref name="intro4">{{cite web | url = http://www.mdbchina.com/persons/2275/others/ | title = Ruby Lin Profile 林心如 档案简介 | date = October 17, 2007 | publisher = mdbchina.com | language = zh | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026021935/http://www.mdbchina.com/persons/2275/others/ | archive-date = October 26, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Lin originally planned on going to the [[United Kingdom]] to study after high school graduation. However, she was discovered by a talent agent at the age of seventeen, during her second year in high school, and started working as a part-time commercial model. Her first TV [[Television advertisement|commercial]] was for a tea brand in 1994.<ref name = "intro5">{{cite web | url = http://www.people.com.cn/GB/yule/1083/2998604.html | title = Ruby Lin: A Delicate Damsel 林心如：楚楚动人的小玉女 | date = November 24, 2004 | work = People's Daily | language = zh | access-date = January 3, 2008 | archive-date = December 18, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061218002645/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/yule/1083/2998604.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

Lin’s parents were initially opposed to her involvement in the entertainment industry.<ref name="coverstory" /> After appearing in several commercials, her parents eventually agreed to let her sign with an entertainment-management company. She officially joined Jessie and Jones Entertainment Ltd on her 20th birthday, shortly after graduating from high school.<ref name = "intro6">{{cite web | url = http://ent.163.com/edit/010206/010206_70874.html | title = Ruby Lin want to most is to become scamp girl 林心如最想演女阿飞 | date = February 6, 2001 | publisher = ent.163.com | format = News article | language = zh | access-date = January 3, 2008 | archive-date = January 26, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070126174102/http://ent.163.com/edit/010206/010206_70874.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="intro7">{{cite web | url = http://e.jmrb.com/m/2004/02/05/09/m_15678.shtml | title = Ruby Lin : The painful years away days 林心如:曾经辛酸的岁月 | date = February 5, 2004 | publisher = jmrb.com | format = News article | language = zh | access-date = January 3, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070531224327/http://e.jmrb.com/m/2004/02/05/09/m_15678.shtml | archive-date = May 31, 2007 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref>