Hwa Sa of MAMAMOO openly discussed her battles with anorexia during her training.
The SBS show 'Bodymentary - Confessions About Weight' on December 29 included touching testimonies from well-known South Korean female celebrities, such as Kim Wan Sun, Soyu, Jeon Hyo Sung, Han Seung Yeon, and Hwa Sa. The show exposed the hidden difficulties of the entertainment industry by examining their individual experiences of being evaluated based on their weight and looks at various points in life.
With more than 22 years of expertise in the industry, stylist Jung Seol voiced concerns about the extreme emphasis on weight in idol culture. "The obsession with weight, that number, is what's really bad about idol culture," she said. However, no two persons can have the same number. 41 kg does not equate to "this much size" in the context of meat. That isn't how it operates.
"It was a time when I had to work hard, but I didn't know what the right approach was," Hwa Sa said, reflecting on her trainee days. Everyone stated this was the standard procedure, so I had to follow it in order to make my debut. I simply didn't eat. Before weighing ourselves on weigh-in days, the members and I would get laxatives from the drugstore and take them.
She also talked about an emotional time when she ate black sesame rice cakes in secret but felt terrible about it afterwards.
"I asked myself, 'I've eaten again after going through all this stress to lose weight.'" I felt all of my feelings, including guilt and rage. I ended up throwing up after crying. That's how it developed into anorexia," she said, bringing up the difficulties as she was a trainee.
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