Why do female idols get skinnier as they get older? (1 Viewer)

[Drew_B]

This secretly drives me crazy. So many female idols had great healthier almost thic bodies in their younger days and for some reason as time goes on they transform into sticks.

I've heard people say its because they lost their baby fat but is that true. I want to say maybe it's also because as we age we lose muscle but surely we don't lose that much from 18 to 24. It has to be a diet they go on but I still dont know for sure.

Id give a few specific idol examples but I don't want to piss anybody off. But for real thicc > skinny.

 

[seoriverse]

i don't think we can be the judge of that by just looking at photos and videos. you can loose weight for many many reasons, and while i'm sure dieting takes some part of that, i think the stress and pressure of being an idol could be the reason why there's a huge weight loss. but as i said, we're not their doctors or anything so we can never know for sure with what we see through our screens.

 

[shika]

Maybe as they get older, more diet options open and they don't have to worry about growing and stuff since they are adults and can do whatever they want. In the end, their health, their bodies. Though it is a bit sad seeing idols get skinnier and skinnier as if their bodies beforehand weren't already perfect

 

[Day]

Maybe the older the idols get, the less tolerance management has for their weight being over a set goal?

 

[SnowWhite]

I do know that when rookies debut, the agency controls their diet up to 2-3 years, after that they let the idols manage themselves. And the cases of idols getting severely skinny is usually after the agencies let them freedom over their diet. The reason is that they control idols when they are young and vulnerable rookies and that probably affects them for a life time, plus seeing the competition and comparing themselves to other idols flames the whole thing even more. Like Apink members' diet was controlled by their agencies when they were rookies. They had only salad and juice or eggs. And now 11 years into their career they took drastic measures like meal replacements. For their previous comeback, Bomi said while dieting for their last comeback she lost 9 kilograms over such a short period of time, her immune system was so weakened that she developed atopic dermatis that she scratched her skin to the point of bleeding and had to tie her hands.

 

[Nezumi]

It worries me a bit too. Sometimes I see an Idol who is so skinny that it scares me. Of course we don't know what the reasons are, but strict dieting and stress/overworking can be reasons.