Former NMB48 member Yogi Keila once weighed 85kg (187 lb.) after she retired as an idol

Former member of the idol group NMB48, media personality Yogi Keila (23) appeared on Nippon Television “The! Sekai Gyoten News Shinshun 5-Jikan SP”. She made a stir on social media when she released a photo of herself weighing up to 85kg for the first time.

Yogi debuted in 2011 when she was 11 years old. She loved to eat, but sometimes people noticed that Yogi often went to restaurants, so she refrained from eating sweets because she was worried about how she would look.

But when she retired from being an idol when she was 14. She later said that while she went to Australia to study for a year, she became addicted to sweets and she gained weight up to 85 kilograms (187 lb.).

When she returned to Japan, she was not noticed by her mother who picked her up at the airport.

However, one day, she happened to see a TV program in which her idol friends were active, and she made up her mind. She worked hard and lost her weight from 85kg to 50kg in one year and said to her “I have a lot of work to do.”