He says that his weight loss has influenced his singing ability.
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It is not a secret that due to the hard beauty standards placed on k-pop idols, many are brought to extremes to make their dreams come true. In particular, the beauty standards involving the weight have led to many stars to take self-admitting actions to adapt.
Hwasa di mamamoo admits that he once has anorexia and more
Recently, a fourth generation idol shared its struggles with weight loss and the measures that they adopted-and their frightening results.
In November 2022, The Boy Group Your debut below Irion Entertainment.
The group for four members is now inactive for several months, but a member Maximum recently appeared on Challenge internships (Translated as a challenge: Dream Stage) and spoke of some of his pre-debut experiences.
Heechan revealed that when he started his hearing process, he often faced the refusal, which in the end was attributed to his weight. This led the idol to start going to the gym and fall 20 kg (about 44 pounds), reaching 74 kg (about 163 pounds).
After losing weight, Heechan was accepted in every hearing he tried, but admitted that his singing skills decreased because of his weakest body.
At the time I weighed 94 kg. Out of desperation, I started going to the gym and working hard to lose weight. I finished losing 20 kg. And once I lost the weight, I started passing every hearing I went to. But since I was so thin and weak, I couldn’t sing as before – it was really difficult. However, I continued to be accepted. It surprised me, ‘it’s really the appearance That important?
– Techan
This weight loss was not enough for its then agency, which had rigorous weekly weight checks. According to Heechan, in addition to the exercises that the company gave him to do every day, he took laxatives at the beginning of the week and did not drink water until after the weight control.
In total, Heechan has dropped about 30 kg (about 66 pounds) in total to try to make its debut, which in the end was canceled.
Fortunately, Heechan said he was in a much healthier state now and is at a comfortable weight and continues to pursue his dreams!
