KARA’s Gyuri Says It’s Stressful Being Compared to Other Members, Talks About Diets

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On the August 23 broadcast of MBC’s “Quiz to Change the World’s” ‘Expert vs. Idol’ special, KARA member Park Gyuri confessed, “Out of the members, Goo Hara and Han Seung Yeon have such skinny body builds, so just being in between them is stressful. I’ve tried out various diet methods.”

The KARA member continued to explain her experience with diets: “After working so hard to lose weight and completing an important filming, I found myself seeking out delicious food due to stress. I would binge eat, but then I would start exercising again right away out of guilt. And that caused [the food] in my stomach to start coming up, which eventually made me throw up. This repetitive cycle caused me to have acid reflux.”

However, Gyuri warned against unsafe diets, saying, “I did this kind of diet in the past, but I don’t do it anymore. Now I do a more sensible diet.”
source: soompi

Comments

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Well admitting to the unhealthy diet to maintain a ridiculous standard and counseling against it should be helpful

[pbutterlion.livejournal.com]

she just described BED and as somebody recovering from that, i really really hope she quit these habits, when u have BED (or any ed for that matter) you are not even living, i cant even imagine what she went through ;;

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

it just shows even girls who called themselves goddess feel insecure. but seriously, you can't compare to Goo Hara, everybody is different.

[921227.livejournal.com]

Aw, Gyuri
But I'm glad she's a lot more sensible with how she diets now and I hope she passes that a long to Youngji. It's ridiculous that some people are criticizing her body/saying she's fat.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

this comment has a rly unfortunate linebreak on my laptop's resolution

[921227.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness!! First I thought that was really me and was super confused

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

lol lol lol

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[torontok.livejournal.com]

A+
Using flowery language and ending with "I'm all better now" lessens how severe it is.
I remember you talking about your struggle with ED in the Seo In Guk Bulimia post. I'm glad you're in a better place and I can only pray it gets easier for you as time goes by. You're incredibly brave for sharing this

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[a-cheshire-grin.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing such a private story. I can't even imagine through what pain you must have gone through!

I'm glad to hear that you're better now!!! <3

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[a-cheshire-grin.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of this!
When I read the article my first reaction also was: "That's not a diet! That sounds a lot like bulimia!"

I seriously hope she is okay now!!!

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Mte. This was also my reaction when I read the article. That is not a diet.

And thank you for being so candid. I wish you the best bb!

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[pbutterlion.livejournal.com]

you are totally right but just to make a point, what she said doesnt describes bulimia. for what she said (and taking her word as honest) she didnt try purging and didnt provoke the vomit, the sickeness and vomit came from guilty+ working out until exhaustion + eating a lot. I mean most people only talk about anorexia and bulimia but theres more kinds of ED than those two, unfortunately.

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[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the new dsm 5 so I don't know is exersise anorexia finally made the cut but if they treat it like anorexia then you can have elements commonly associated with bulimia and still haves form of anorexia.Working out until I puked was something I did to hide my disordered eating from friends and family and to normalize it. I was an athlete so I would come to practice early and stay late working myself out until I puked. To others it was me being dedicated to my sport or that I needed to drink a little more water to balance it out, but for me it was from guilt of wanting to eat.

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[pbutterlion.livejournal.com]

normally this behavior falls under BED/EDNOS but im also no doctor, just did a lot of reading during recovery lol

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

I did, luckily I was terrible at throwing up and eating meds so I didn't got that far, but it took me years to shift my way of thinking and stop weighting myself at least three times a day. Really I can't remember how I stopped doing it, probably my mind trying to block the memory from that time.

I really hope you can recover, I don't remember much but I remember how horrible it was and how I totally fucked up my life.

Now even though I graduated later than my friends and still struggling with job hunting, and other issues I shouldn't mention here, I think I'm pretty much recovered.
Oh, and the funny thing is now I weight pretty much the same as when I was having eating disorder, maybe I was doing it wrongly.

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

This so much it so hard to watch people trivialize something that destroys lives and can drastically change them forever.

Re: Can we stop calling this a diet and start calling it what it is

[10135.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope it will help others see what they are doing and how it isn't a 'diet'. I wish you the best!

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

That was not a diet.

[krobwell.livejournal.com]

it's wild how someone i look up to has gone through the exact same thing as me
being afraid of food makes life truly unpleasant :( i hope she is honestly feeling better about herself now

[pbutterlion.livejournal.com]

being afraid of food is really terrible ;; but may i ask how are you doing these days?

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Out of the members, Goo Hara and Han Seung Yeon have such skinny body builds, so just being in between them is stressful.

Woops, there it is.

I can't remember being anything different than somewhere between very curvy and plain overweight, and I've always experienced what Gyuri describes as one of the most suffocating parts of being not skinny with self esteem issues. Even now: I hardly meet girls in my age category (early twenties) that has the same build as me and I often feel very selfconcious about it. I have a good friend who's really fit and whenever she uploads pictures of herself on Facebook mid workout... Gyuri IS skinny, that she's in an environment where she still feels too big, it's sickening.

Tw disordered eating/ bulimia

[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

I really do hope she got the help she need and she truly is better becuase bulimia or bulimic behavior is so damaging to the body and the mind :( but I really hate how the Korean media trivializes it by calling it a diet bulimia is not a diet bulimia kills and bulimia can severely impact your life even after you recover.

My life will never be the same after my struggle with bulimic behaviors. My relationship with food will never be the same and it will always be a struggle to remind myself that my body is worth living in and worth protecting no matter what it's size. My heart is damaged to the point where I have altered its rymthm so much it skips beats on a semi frequent basis. So it hurts to see it trivialized in such a way, espically when I know countless other women and men struggle with it daily and for some it will cost them there lives

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

the worst part is that i completely relate to not fitting in the same body shape/figure as my peers, while i don't think my body is ugly, i don't think it is pretty either, tbh i share a very weird relationship with my body and the fact that i never met someone similar as me (even though my body type is not that different or odd) really makes things difficult and adds a bunch of complexes.

thankfully i actually have really good parents that always helped me with their love, and that even though some people from outside may make me feel bad about myself, they always made sure that i knew that there was nothing wrong with me and my figure, and honestly if it wasn't them i don't know what i would have done during my teen years. so right now while i don't really love my body, i don't hate it and i am aware that the way i am physically cannot be changed as the way i was built is this one.

[bomsnose.livejournal.com]

It's good that she addressed this topic, however lighly it was taken.

[creepypiecakes.livejournal.com]

This post and all the comments here break my heart. It is so sad that so many suffer or have suffered from these types of eating disorders. Whats worse is the lack of knowledge and how society and media trivilaze these type of things. The lack of support. There is no worse feeling than hating yourself and your body and always comparing and obsessing. It ruins your life, it ruins you and youll never ever be desame afterwards. Im still struggling with the aftermath of a serious couple of years and the thoughts are still there. Always there actually. And the fact that they call these things for diets (water diet? wtf, come on guys!) or bad self esteem, its so much more and deeper than that. And how people really doesnt see the difference between so skinny that the ribs are sticking out and calling that abs and the fit people that actually are healthy and have a little bit of fat and calling that overweight. Its tiring so so tiring.

I hope she gets the help she needs, especially since she is in this type of industry where outwards appearance are everything.