Miss Korea alumna Kim Ji-yeon shared that she gained weight up to 75kg.
On the 3rd, the Juvis Diet channel uploaded a video titled "'Miss Korea Kim Ji-yeon' the second life story of having lost everything and having to get back up."
As the 1997 Miss Korea winner who had carried out various activities in the entertainment industry such as broadcasting, Kim Ji-yeon was currently working in insurance sales. She confessed, "I started with a desperate heart. If income is 0 won and the money I have is also 0 won, I only have my body, so what should I do? At that time I thought I should do delivery work. A year passed, two years passed, and later it became my full-time job. But as the damage accumulated, knees that never hurt began to hurt and I developed occupational ailments. I needed a fixed routine, but I wondered what work I could do even without a fixed schedule. Then I thought being an insurance planner might be something I could do for a long time, so I challenged myself," she said.
She said she had been working for less than a year, and when asked what led her to work in a field other than broadcasting she explained, "It is personal, but I took on a very big risk. The business of a boyfriend I had before did not go well, and it seems I have been struggling for several years to resolve that. The loss I suffered is not just tens of millions of won but nearly 100 million won. If I had had steady broadcasting work, I think it would have been easier to get back up. I wasn't able to because much of the work I did was related to appearance. As befitted a Miss Korea, people wanted a glamorous image, but at that time I was sallow, swollen and in pain. Even in the home shopping work I was doing well, I kept hearing that if I lost a little weight it would be so good, and hearing that so often became stressful; even when I dieted my body hurt and I wondered how I could stop gaining weight. A younger person watching me suggested, 'Why don't you try being an insurance planner?,'" she explained.
Kim Ji-yeon said she would eat her first meal after work after 5 p.m. He said, "In the past I used to drink cola with meals like this. But I recently had a health check and it came up as prediabetes. My blood sugar was high. I shouldn't be eating these things... eating times vary. Some days I starve and then eat at 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. and go to bed, and some days I eat all three meals," she said, describing irregular meal times.
Looking at photos from her Miss Korea days, she said, "Miss Korea makeup was heavy, wasn't it? Why was I so ugly? These were photos I had many complaints about, but looking back now I realize these are some of the photos that show what my body could have been like. Now anyone can see I'm obviously gained weight, so if I could only go back to then it would feel like a dream," she said.
When she was offered a diet project, she said, "I felt it was such a big opportunity," and added, "When I used to be active as Miss Korea and as an entertainer, whether viewers wanted it or not there were titles attached to me that emphasized external beauty. When I wasn't good externally or physically, I felt it was regrettable that I had to live as this human Kim Ji-yeon, an ordinary Kim Ji-yeon. But can't I do both now? I thought. I feel like the most ordinary me could be recognized just as she is, and conversely I thought I could become someone more useful, like 'the glory of those glamorous days.' I can do well, right? I'll try hard," she vowed.
In a subsequent interview video, Kim Ji-yeon broke down in tears, saying, "I almost gave up everything. What's the point of losing weight now? What's the point of getting healthy? You can do it when you see hope to do better. When I didn't have that, there were times I didn't want to do anything anymore."
She said, "When circumstances worsened or my appearance changed, I was fine, but it felt like those around me were passing a death sentence. I thought, I'm not Miss Korea anymore so I can live however I want, I can eat anything comfortably, and I think I lived like that. That kind of time kept damaging my health, so now I have the courage again—not to show someone else but for myself. A diet for my health. That feels like a very different point," and added, "I will make time with Juvis Diet to surely succeed and become healthier, stronger internally and more beautiful externally than the current Kim Ji-yeon."
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