Is America making BoA chubby?

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All my friends, me included, have at one point in time succumbed to the American lifestyle of eating too much and gaining unwanted poundage (10 to 25 pounds). If you check out the portions served at many restaurants, it’s not for 1 but for 2-3 regular sized persons. The amount of food is just crazy. And so without realizing how much you are eating (because everyone else eats a lot), you end up gaining weight. Case in point : BoA

At the year end SBS Gayo Daejun on December 30th, the girl looks like she’s been packing on the pounds on her face. Of course, the big mullet hair is trying to hide the fact, but we spot the fullness in her cheeks. Not that there is anything wrong with looking “healthy,” but if she continues to chow down the American way, the girl is in for a long slippery slope of chunkiness.

But we are sure that SM would never let her reach the full potential of chipmunk-hood.

Check out her performance (note how there are rarely any closeups of her face)

145 Responses to “Is America making BoA chubby?”


  1. 1 sLaVe December 31, 2008 at 12:56 am

    Good. She’s not anorexic looking anymore :x
    but her face does look a bit chubbier… or masculine?

    whatever, she’s a beast. it’s inhuman to be that awesome.

    -sLaVe

  2. 2 Leena December 31, 2008 at 1:00 am

    She seems to have gain a bit of weight which is just wonderful because she looks way to skinny in the previous years. She looks healthier know.

  3. 3 4everseika December 31, 2008 at 1:03 am

    i think she look fine!!!

  4. 4 flyingplanes December 31, 2008 at 1:50 am

    at least her english got better…a little.. haha
    she doesn’t look bad, i’d say.
    mmm..
    at least her backup dancers are cool 8)

  5. 5 MIa December 31, 2008 at 2:20 am

    yeah..i think she’s fine…at least she’s happy(i hope so..XD)
    btw…BoA, HWAITING!!!

  6. 6 Kim December 31, 2008 at 2:47 am

    Hey, leave her alone!

    At least she is so much better that voiceless Wondergirls!
    Perhaps it’s just a haircut… I am not sure why POPSEOUL is so judgmental about her weight…I don’t see any problems when person looks happy and healthy. BOA ROCKS!

  7. 7 xiah babe December 31, 2008 at 2:52 am

    oh well.. she’s still amazing even when’s she’s fat x)

  8. 8 baeyoon December 31, 2008 at 3:32 am

    at least better than her moto days in korea. she looks like a stick!!

  9. 9 myoungjae December 31, 2008 at 4:06 am

    i dont really see it..shes always had kinda a fat face…her hair not helping me like her tho..and her voice is sooo nazily…her dancings pretty good tho

  10. 10 Aki December 31, 2008 at 5:07 am

    I don’t think it should matter.
    Besides, she’ll get back in shape
    since she’s always on stage. And
    sometimes her hair cuts express her
    face too much. The hair looks kinda
    gross, it just doesn’t make her look
    too good. Her other hairstyles have
    suited her a lot better. This cut
    make her look…manlyish. She needs
    a more elegant cut. ~.~

  11. 11 Merenge_5 December 31, 2008 at 5:21 am

    well I think it’s her hair…awful hairstyle in my eyes:P doesn’t really suit her because it makes her face chubby!

    well she looks pretty healthy to me…most of the other korean celebrities look awfully skinny…I’d like to see if they eat at all because sometimes it looks so anorexic!

  12. 12 Cathy December 31, 2008 at 6:20 am

    I don’t think she gained any weight…why don’t people focus on what an extraordinary performance she put on instead?

  13. 13 Mari December 31, 2008 at 6:50 am

    I think it’s the hair. Ack!

  14. 14 Amber December 31, 2008 at 8:35 am

    so what if shes put on some weight…she looks good.

  15. 15 tofu December 31, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Ironic how the song is titled “Eat You Up”

  16. 16 RantingMood December 31, 2008 at 10:13 am

    whats the big deal!!???!!!..she looks way better than all twigs out there lol..i swear, they could have all cuts and bruises on their legs but as far as theyre skinny its all good to them lol-eww.

  17. 17 Chantelle December 31, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Yes a girl that looks well balanced and not like a stick figure with no curves, just narrow and bony is the picture of pure health!

    Seriously wtf? She looks great!

  18. 18 Lalala December 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    BoA is not chubby. She looks the same as she always does (amazing!) it’s just the hair-do and the clothes. All PopSeoul ever does is write bad articles about the artists going over to America. Why? They’re just trying to expand their horizons and take their career to a new level. Sheesh!

  19. 19 Genchou December 31, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    I think she looks great.

  20. 20 Jackie December 31, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    she’s a twig and you are insane and need to be fired

  21. 21 jungoi December 31, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    She looks good!!!!

  22. 22 Chii December 31, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    I don’t see any changes. >.>
    Seriously.

  23. 23 Enkhuush December 31, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Love BoA! even she looks little chubbby

  24. 24 SunKi December 31, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    so what if she gained weight, she is still totally awesome!!! XD

  25. 25 natalie December 31, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    Let’s stop worrying about what America is doing to Boa, and start worrying about South Korea’s government.

    http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/S-Korea-Parliament-Brawl/ss/events/wl/121808koreaparlbrawl

  26. 26 BoA December 31, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    I wish she would stop flaunting her sucky English

  27. 27 riki January 1, 2009 at 2:47 am

    you people care waaaaaay too much about looks and weight

  28. 28 sassy January 1, 2009 at 4:41 am

    i dont think she looks that bad
    she’s still skinny, im just glad that her anorexic
    starved face is gone.

  29. 29 nina January 1, 2009 at 8:49 am

    “You fill my appetite in ways I cannot understaaand!” lol, seriously. No, joking – I can’t tell she’s gained any weight. BoA looks great.

  30. 30 nina January 1, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Opppps/ “…in way’s I can’t explain”* mianhe. : P

  31. 31 Ashley January 1, 2009 at 11:35 am

    She still looks good.

  32. 32 Jane. January 1, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    OH MY GOSH she looks thin now instead of anorexic! Huge accomplishment..

  33. 33 Lynn January 2, 2009 at 12:04 am

    I call bullsh*t on this post.

  34. 34 caddyy song January 2, 2009 at 7:27 am

    oh no, boa fell into the American McDonald’s trap. haha.

  35. 35 jieun January 2, 2009 at 11:50 am

    great, something me and boa can share in common.

  36. 36 anonymous January 2, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    I think it’s the hair… =/

  37. 37 wut January 3, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    yeah, american food is fattening boa- her and every other immigrant. it’s not really the portions, but the fact that american food is SO unhealthy- lots of fatty foods, oil, grease, sugar, preservatives, flavorings, too much spices…
    or it could be that she’s trying to gain weight to add some curves to her figure, since america is more into full figures than thin ones.

  38. 38 Jasmine January 5, 2009 at 8:59 am

    SERIOUSLY WTF IS UP WITH ALL THESE MULLETS?! They are so hideous and I remember almost EVERY wannaba Korean girl on Soompi got one. It looks like something crawled on their heads and died.

  39. 39 mpy January 5, 2009 at 9:18 am

    She looks beautiful now D:
    But her voice isn’t doing too well. I wonder if she’s just tired? Maybe.

  40. 40 ok January 6, 2009 at 3:57 am

    Girl needs to wear white or colored shoes on black turf. Let us see those dance moves!

    Feet don’t look fat in sneakers. :)

  41. 41 Helen January 9, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    even if american food aint healthy and fatty.
    there are a bunch of food out there in america
    chinese, japanese, korean, etc.
    what is wrong with gain a little bit of weight
    if she doesn’t want to get fat then she will control that weighting problem.
    if she doesn’t like american food, she have the right to not eat it and pick something else.
    don’t go blaming other people.

  42. 42 Belle January 11, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Wow…Interesting…all her dance steps remind me of Janet Jackson.

  43. 43 esther January 22, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    i think she looks super hot and healthy(:
    she is totally not chubby. she is the perfect weight.

  44. 44 Pinky July 27, 2009 at 11:52 am

    She looks fine to me.

    You make it sound like she’s morbidly obese.

    Gee thanks for generalizing my country.


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