Sachi Fujii, 28, has been active in the fashion world since her debut as an exclusive model for “Seventeen” at the age of 15. Her YouTube channel, where she shares her lifestyle in a relaxed manner, has also attracted attention, but in the past, she was troubled by her body shape and resorted to extreme diet restrictions. What is the current state she has reached after being diagnosed with an eating disorder and suffering from vomiting and overeating? (Continued from Part 1 of 2) [Photo] Sachi Fujii with an ennui expression on her cheekbones * * * — In this series of interviews with celebrities about how they deal with their complexes, we asked Ms. Fujii about her body shape, which used to be a complex. I heard that you used to have a complex about your body shape. I started feeling this way after I started modeling for “Seventeen” when I was 15 years old. When I would put on clothes that the stylist had prepared for me, I would get stuck at the hips while the other models were able to change easily. My mother is American, and my body is a little curvy. –I think I’m a little curvy – not that anyone pointed it out to me, but I started to think that way myself. I thought to myself, “Maybe I’m quite fat,” or “If I’m going to be a model, I need to be thinner. But now that I’m an adult, I think that maybe I was too influenced by the media around me. The trains were filled with diet ads and magazines featured articles such as “Minus 5 kg by summer,” and I think I was put in an environment where I was easily conscious of my body shape. Models not only in Japan but also overseas have amazing proportions. I think that watching the Victoria’s Secret shows created a stereotype of what I had to look like. That’s why I went on an extreme diet. I used an app that allowed me to calculate calories, and I was trying to get down to 400 calories a day. It was a very strange situation because every day I was thinking things like, “I was able to keep it down to 400 calories today,” or “Now I can sleep. I knew that if my family found out about this, they would be against it, so I couldn’t even tell them about my body shape problems.
