Hwang Yeeun also know as Nxy is Itzy's Yeji younger sister, Yeeun was a former pro ice skater and child actress. Winning medals at every event she attended, she was always an outstanding girl. One day she ran into a Big Hit staff at one of her compe...
Hwang Yeeun opens up about her figure skating career.
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Hwang Yeeun recently has opened up about her figure skating career before debuting as an idol. In the interview with Vogue, Yeeun was asked how she felt about giving up her career in figure skating to become a singer and how she felt about it now. Yeeun responded with
" it's difficult to say that I was happy back then, it was hard to give up a career in that field. I sometimes felt like I wasn't doing it for myself anymore, it was for my coach and my family. I was always winning, I wanted to lose so many times but I didn't. No matter how many times I tried to mess up the choreography it never worked. I always won, it was really exhausting."
Yeeun later went on to greater detail that she felt exhausted by just watching someone perform on ice.
" sometimes I use to wonder if the skaters I was watching were tired like me. Did they feel the same? Did they want to lose too?Did they want to give up? "
Yeeun expressed that she didn't feel like figure skating was bringing her the happiness it used bring her. She states after she finished performing it wouldn't be the satisfaction she used to have.
" After each performance I had to take pictures and go change into my practice clothes. I would be the last one out because I would cry in the back of the locker rooms. I was really unhappy the last 2 years before I retired."
Yeeun says that after she announced that she was retiring caused a lot of drama between her friends, coach and family. She says that one day she had enough and broke down in front of her oldest sister who convinced her to do what she wanted.
" it had gotten to the point where I exploded on my older sister. We were having and argument because I skipped both of my practices, I missed dance and skating practice. We were yelling and screaming and then I said something around the lines of I'm tired of always winning I just want to do this one thing that makes me happy. I can't really remember the rest because I was crying so much, but I do remember that she said stop thinking about what others want, think about what Yeeun wants. Not Hwang Yeeun. So the next day I had made an announcement on sns saying that I was officially stepping out of the big competition I had and was preparing for."
Yeeun would not disclose the big competition she stepped away from, but there were already multiple rumors going around that she was preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics after she had left JYP Entertainment and was seen with high class trainers and choreographers multiple times.
How do these news make you feel?
My god she's so strong
The actual interview makes me so sad, she said that she's much happier now than she was back then
Everyone should go read and watch the actual interview, it's kinda sad but Yeeun talks about her relationship with txt and other things
So proud of her for BEING IN VOUGE
Hopefully Yeeun becomes a Vouge model
The fact that she was having more fun dancing and singing then figure skating makes me feel sad.
After her accident Yeeun looked like she couldn't enjoy skating again
