[Sportschosun Kim Jun-seok Reporter] Broadcaster Ji Yeon-soo revealed that when she was working as a racing model, she went to extreme lengths to control her weight, sometimes essentially starving herself for up to four days.
She also admitted that she once lost 2 to 3 kilograms at a time by wrapping her body in plastic wrap and going into a steam room, but suffered from severe dizziness.
On the 24th, a video titled "Ji Yeon-soo's Life is Sweet" was uploaded to the YouTube channel "Ji Yeon-soo's Life is Sweet," under the title "Ji Yeon-soo's pre-birth 76 kg to 50 kg: Her post-birth diet secrets revealed!"
That day, Ji Yeon-soo treated her son Min-su and acquaintances to a buffet meal to celebrate receiving her salary.
Ji Yeon-soo said she often goes to buffets with her son and explained, "For a child like Min-su who eats a lot, if he orders three or four servings of meat at a barbecue restaurant, along with stew and rice, the bill can sometimes come to 70,000 to 80,000 won."
It was not just about food costs. She said she also wanted her son to naturally learn table manners in a space shared with other people.
Ji Yeon-soo said, "There are many things a child needs to be taught if he is going to live on his own," adding, "I want him to learn everything, from how to wait to how to behave in crowded places."
As the meal continued, the conversation naturally turned to dieting.
Ji Yeon-soo said her weight increased sharply during pregnancy and after childbirth. "I got pregnant at 45 kilograms and gave birth at 78 kilograms," she recalled. "After delivery, I had only lost 4 kilograms."
She said she suffered from severe swelling and even pain, so at the postpartum care center she scooped out the seaweed from her seaweed soup, rinsed it in water, and ate it to reduce her sodium intake.
She ate rice, side dishes, eggs, and milk, but managed her weight by limiting certain foods.
As a result, she said her weight had dropped to the low 50-kilogram range before 50 days had passed since giving birth. Ji Yeon-soo said, "I think I lost nearly 20 to 30 kilograms."
What was even more surprising, however, was the diet she followed when she was active as a racing model.
Under intense pressure to maintain her figure at the time, Ji Yeon-soo confessed, "I starved for up to four days."
She added, "It wasn't that I ate nothing. I would have just one black candy." In effect, she survived while severely restricting her food intake.
Extreme hunger and stress followed. Ji Yeon-soo said that during the fast, she constantly craved tteokbokki, jjajangmyeon, and ice cream. She also admitted that hunger made her irritable, and she even cut off contact with people around her.
She also went through extreme methods to shed water weight and make the number on the scale drop quickly.
Ji Yeon-soo said she used a method in which she wrapped her body in plastic wrap and went into a steam room to sweat.
After one such session, her weight would drop by as much as 2 to 3 kilograms.
But that was not a loss of body fat. Ji Yeon-soo emphasized, "It was water weight," and recalled that she also suffered from severe dizziness at the time.
Although the number on the scale dropped in a short time, the method placed a heavy burden on her body. Ji Yeon-soo candidly shared her past experience of managing her weight by repeatedly fasting and losing water weight.
Meanwhile, Ji Yeon-soo married Eli Kim, who is 11 years younger than her and formerly of UKISS, in 2014, and they had a son, but divorced in 2020. Their son is currently being raised by Ji Yeon-soo, and Eli Kim recently announced that he has remarried.
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