Paruru talks about dieting and weight gain in her latest YouTube video

Former AKB48 member Shimazaki Haruka aka “Paruru”, talked about dieting and weight gain in her latest YouTube video.

Shimazaki said around when she was 16-years-old, at the time of auditioning for AKB48, she was 46kg (101 pounds) and felt she was overweight.

She talked about how she worked on a diet from eating no carbs, removing fried food and exercise on days without eating much and she will definitely not want people to imitate the things that she did.

She lost the weight and passed the audition in 2009 and dropped to 38kg (83 pounds).  Although she gained weight after, she learned about calories and improving her diet.  She now weights around 43.8kg (about 96 pounds) and since graduating from AKB48, she has been trying to maintain her weight.

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