Kim Haeun, also called former Cignature member Ye Ah, is doing a sequence speaking about her idol journey and the way she debuted 3 times on a secondary Instagram account, and within the last a part of it, she talks about her hardships in making C9 Leisure‘s weight commonplace and that it led to her being pressured to depart the group.
250513 Haeun IG submit final episode, utilizing on-line audio translation #cignature pic.twitter.com/TtfZr4oljk
— elolery ⛱️ (@lolerinu) Might 13, 2025
Again in April of 2021, each Ye Ah and Sunn left the group and nullified their contracts, which confused plenty of Cignature followers because it appeared to return out of the blue. Ye Ah was additionally the group’s foremost vocal on the time, and earlier within the story she says the corporate CEO contacted her to redebut as a result of they wanted a foremost vocal, which makes this all of the more odd. She additionally talked about her struggles with weight-reduction plan and unhealthy consuming habits, and the anxiousness the burden precipitated.
That’s a lot fucked up by itself and an indictment of the trade, however I additionally went again within the story a bit, and in some way it will get far worse than that.
Ye Ah says in the second half of her story that whereas she was part of youngsters group Littles, buyers confirmed up and obtained them and their mother and father to conform to ship them to a different company that would present higher for his or her debut. She explains that they have been strict, they usually have been hit within the abdomen to show “correct respiration” and hit on the top for being drained. Regardless of being 15 (FIFTEEN), she was additionally taken to karaoke to satisfy individuals who “may assist”, and whereas she didn’t prefer it she thought it was a part of fulfilling her dream. Finally they discovered that company’s CEO didn’t have the funds to debut them, and she or he thought of herself fortunate that she was capable of cancel the contracts.
Good god, what a nightmare. The corporate and CEO aren’t named, and there’s no information on the place she was between Littles and Good Day, but when you already know, let me know so I can replace this.
