Former AKB48 member Oya Shizuka talks about losing and gaining weight and how she is now at 70kg

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Oya Shizuka talked about her weight loss on her YouTube channel, going from 65 kg and going down to 49.8 kg. But in her latest video, she confessed that her latest weight is now up to 70 kg.

“I’ve been struggling with dieting and rebounding,” and decided to do a project to look back on her weight history. When she joined AKB48 at the age of 15, she said she had a standard figure, but decided to go on a diet due to her gravure shooting. “When she was at her thinnest, she was 46 kilos. She became too skinny and it made her face look bigger,” she recalled.

However, after her filming ended, she started drinking again and she gradually put on her weight.

Oya said, “If I live a normal life, I’ll gain weight. People ask me, ‘Why you gaining weight?’. I’m the type of person who easily gains weight. I think it’s rare for people to gain or lose weight like this. People around me are surprised, though. I myself thought that it’s not good to do things that put a strain on your body. I hope that I can become a model for someone like myself to say, ‘I can keep up!’ by dieting without overdoing it.”