My day started at 5 AM. I lived with eight more girls in a small dorm (not all of them were in the line-up of our group, we just lived together). It was really small, I can tell you that (definitely not a whole house as you can see today in many idols' vlogs which are filmed in their dorms). I slept in a room with four more girls, which was always packed with things. Every girl needs to have space for her clothes, make-up and things like that. When you put four girls in one tiny room, it is a disaster.
In the whole dorm, there were only four rooms - bathroom, bedroom, kitchen with dining room and living room, where other girls slept on the couch or on a floor (they had a thin mattress like thing, I forgot how is it called, but they didn't sleep on the hard cold floor, don't worry).
I went jogging every morning around the block in which we had our apartment or do some quick but intense workout - I did a lot of working out even before I went to Korea because I did athletics for a while so I worked out by doing exercises I remembered from my athletics practices. There wasn't any specific workout I would be able to tell you there (basically squads, burpees, high knees, push-ups, crunches, that bicycle thing...)
In the kpop industry, nobody just says: „It is okay to have one kilogram more than you should." Especially when you are in the company similar to which I was. It wasn't any famous company on the level of Cube, Starship, etc. and the CEO really had a certain vision in his head of how we should look like.
Especially when you are a woman in the industry, there is way more pressure put onto you to be always skinny and good-looking than it is put onto men.
That is the reason why everyone in the kpop industry has these unhealthy diets or starving because their agencies force them to look a certain way without even considering things like their height or health problems. (Finally, it is changing these days and I hope it will continue and all idols will live healthier! It hurts to watch people be insulted because of a few kilograms.)
