The reason why Suzuki Kanon, who had been commonly known as the chubby one of Morning Musume, made up her mind to lose weight was that she had got dropped from the cast for their own musical TRIANGLE played in last June. She wanted to change herself who’d been losing confidence in herself as she gained more weight. So she decided to recover that herself just as she joined the group four years ago.
“I tried not to eat anything other than chicken breasts and vegetables, And I did muscle training, walking and jogging every day. I did jogging even for seven kilometers when I felt I could.”
Mitsui Aika, an ex-member of Morning Musume, got impressed by Kanon’s incessant effort and supported her by doing exercise together at Akasaka Hie Shrine, going up and down its stone steps. After going through these two months of hard trainings, Kanon looks very refreshed now.
Kanon says “My mother always comes to pick me up after I finish work, she would have to recognize me coming by my baggage not by my figure these days.” "During the theatre play in June I met the member only once or twice a week, and they told me each time how thinner I’d got" she recalls.
Tsunku, the general puroducer for Morning Musume, gave Kanon a handsome reward for achieving the drastic change. Promoting her to the center of the group on their new single.
“I had been in rear positions for so long time that I got a habit of striking poses that would look good in rear positions. I didn’t know what kind of posing would suit the center position. Anyway I was delighted to get to be in the center. It still feels like I’ve been dreaming.”
“Yet I won’t be satisfied with being in the center for this time only. I don’t like to stay in positions that people would hardly care about. I want to be the member who can support all other members, and someone people think essential to the group.”
Suzuki, who has made a break with her old chubby self, is now seeing a brand new view. She’s determined to be the member who supports the backbone of Morning Musume.