otaku_blue wrote:Momuse.tumblr.com translated an interview regarding Zukki's weight loss and how she lost the weight:
The reason why Suzuki Kanon, who had been commonly known as the chubby one of Morning Musume, made up her mind to lose weight was that she had got dropped from the cast for their own musical TRIANGLE played in last June. She wanted to change herself who’d been losing confidence in herself as she gained more weight. So she decided to recover that herself jsut as she joined the group four years ago.
“I tried not to eat anything other than chicken breasts and vegetables, And I did muscle training, walking and jogging every day. I did jogging even for seven kilometers when I felt I could.”
Mitsui Aika an ex-member of Morning Musume, who had got impressed by Kanon’s incessant effort, supported her by doing exercise together at Akasaka Hie Shrine, going up and down its stone steps. After gooing through these two months of hard trainings, Kanon looks very refreshed now.
Kanon says “My mother always comes to pick me up after I finished work, she would have to recognize me coming by my baggage not by my figure these days.” "During the theatre play in June I met the member only once or twice a week, and they told me each time how thinner I’d got" she recalls.
Tsunku, the general puroducer for Morning Musume, gave Kanon a handsome reward for achieving the drastic change. Promoting her to the center of the group on their new single.
“I had been in rear positions for so long time that I got a habit of striking poses that would look good in rear positions. I didn’t know what kind of posing would suit the center position. Anyway I was delighted to be in the center. It still feels like I’ve been dreaming.”
“Yet I won’t be satisfied with being in the center for this time only. I don’t like to stay in positions that people would hardly care about. I want to be the member who can support all other members, and someone people think essential to the group.”
Suzuki, who has made a break with her old chubby self, is now seeing a brand new view. She’s been determined to be the member who supports the backbone of Morning Musume.
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/articl ... 00146.htmlHighlights:
- Zukki lost her weight through a healthy diet and exercise routine.
- Aika impressed by her efforts started to exercise with Zukki.
- Zukki wants to keep the weight and become a backbone member of Morning Musume
- She says she used her time posing as a back member to help her as center.
~ I wonder why she got dropped? There are plenty of chubby-ish women who do musical theater. Did she not fit into the costumes? Was her stamina bad? Was it just stupid and shallow?
~ Aika can never stop being the motherly one! Hahaha, it's so cute she was willing to help Zukki in such a way. That's Aika for you, though. She hasn't changed.
~ Tsunku rewarded her with the role :3. I cannot get over how caring that is, he saw her hard work and was like "You know what, you deserve a present." How many producers do that!? Tsunku is something else man.