I vomited while eating Injeolmi, I got depression...Hwasa's signature campaign for withdrawal in the early days of her debut, and the aftermath (body documentary)

Dec 30, 2024

I vomited while eating Injeolmi, I got depression...Hwasa's signature campaign for withdrawal in the early days of her debut, and the aftermath (body documentary)



Singer Hwasa expressed her thoughts on dieting.

SBS Special 'Body Documentary'Confession about 'Sal' aired on the 29th shed light on the impact of biased beauty standards on female stars representing K-pop through their lives. Kim Wan-sun, Han Seung-yeon, Jeon Hyo-sung, Soyou, and Hwasa appeared on the show to tell in-depth stories about the beauty of the body.

Reflecting on the withdrawal signature campaign that she experienced in the early days of her debut, Hwasa, who was confident with her unique appearance, said, `It's the fate of an idol, but the standards of beauty seemed to be tight, especially then," he said bitterly.




Hwasa vividly conveyed the unexpected barriers she encountered from her childhood when she purely dreamed of becoming a singer. When she was a trainee who weighed and evaluated every day, Hwasa secretly ate one black sesame Injeolmi and vomited with guilt. Since then, I've been anorexic and depressed, and I don't think this is rightIt is said that it occurred to him that " Soyou, who collapsed on the street due to a sudden diet and was transferred to the emergency room, was worried about gaining weight while receiving fluids, and later suffered panic disorder.

I vomited while eating Injeolmi, I got depression...Hwasa's signature campaign for withdrawal in the early days of her debut, and the aftermath (body documentary)
Even in the midst of extreme body care stress, 'height-120' (*a harsh standard that you have to be 120 when you lose weight from your height) was inevitable. They were forced to stick to numbers because of this weight calculation method, which follows like an idol's formula. Jeon Hyo-sung, who repeated binge eating and dieting, recalled the time when he was working at 50kg and felt like he had not fulfilled his professional duties", he confessed.

According to the National Health Insurance Service, the number of female anorexia patients under the age of 20 has increased by 97.5% over the past five years. At this point, the production team said they felt the need to have a frank talk about the standards of beauty we think of at least once.






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