Choi Jun-hee Claps Back at Body-Shaming Over 50kg Weight Loss

On Wednesday, August 20, 2026, Choi Jun-hee — the daughter of the late actress Choi Jin-sil — pushed back on social media against a wave of body-shaming and malicious comments about her extremely slim figure. In posts and a follow-up video, the Korean influencer asked followers to stop telling her to gain weight, mocked contradictory insults about her appearance, and said she cannot put weight back on while taking diet supplements tied to her long health struggle.

Editor’s note: This article draws on coverage from Sports Chosun, Xports News, and Kbizoom, August 20–21, 2026. Direct quotes are attributed to Choi Jun-hee’s social media posts on August 20.

What Choi Jun-hee posted on August 20

Choi shared screenshots of abusive comments and addressed them directly on her personal channels, including Instagram.

She highlighted two contrasting remarks that had been left on her content:

Comment type	Reported wording (paraphrased from Korean posts)
“Gain weight” criticism	Urging her to put on weight and suggesting her late mother would be furious in heaven
Appearance insult	Calling her unattractive and saying her body was the kind “men hate”

Choi asked her audience which line was more infuriating — framing the comments as impossible to satisfy.

She also wrote:

“Please stop leaving hateful comments telling me to gain weight or saying I look like I’m starving or whatever.”

And added:

“I can’t gain weight because I am taking diet supplements. Sorry.”

In a video posted alongside the screenshots, outlets reported that she repeated her plea to stop weight-related abuse and used a sped-up, muted clip to convey frustration — a format familiar to followers of her candid social updates.

Background: lupus, steroids, and a 96 kg to 41 kg journey

Choi’s current figure did not arrive overnight. Entertainment outlets have widely reported that she once weighed about 96 kg (roughly 211 lbs) while battling lupus, an autoimmune disease whose treatment — including steroid side effects — contributed to major weight gain.

Through sustained diet management and exercise, she later lost roughly 50–55 kg and has been reported to maintain a weight around 41 kg in 2026. She has documented that transformation openly on social media and YouTube, including stretch marks and other physical marks left by rapid change.

On August 19, a day before her rebuttal, she posted mirror photos showing an extremely slim waist and rib line, explaining that she sticks to a strict routine focused on visual body changes rather than scale numbers. She said she eats Korean food consistently and that abdominal skin had become so thin that veins were visible — language that had already drawn mixed reactions online before the August 20 backlash post.

That recent visibility helps explain why comment sections again filled with unsolicited judgments about whether she looked “too thin” or “unattractive” — the criticism she confronted head-on on August 20.

Invoking Choi Jin-sil: why the comments cut deeper

Choi Jun-hee is not a stranger to public scrutiny. As the daughter of Choi Jin-sil, one of South Korea’s best-known actresses, and the late professional baseball player Cho Sung-min, her life has been watched since childhood. Choi Jin-sil died in 2008; Cho Sung-min died in 2013.

Comments that invoke her mother’s name — suggesting Choi Jin-sil would be angry from “heaven” about her daughter’s weight — sit at the intersection of body policing and grief. Choi’s August 20 response treated those remarks as part of the same harassment bucket as outright appearance insults, rather than as concern.

She has also faced criticism in the past over sharing cosmetic surgery and aesthetic procedures online. Supporters on her August 20 post pushed back against the pile-on, with comments along the lines of “stop telling her what to do with her own body” and “she looks even prettier in person,” according to Korean outlet reporting.

Who Choi Jun-hee is today

Detail	Information
Born	2003
Parents	Late actress Choi Jin-sil; late baseball player Cho Sung-min
Work	Influencer and model; active on Instagram and YouTube
Marriage	Wed a non-celebrity partner 11 years her senior in May 2026
Public profile	Shares daily life, fashion, diet, and body-transformation content

Her August 20 statement did not announce new medical information beyond referencing diet supplements and her inability to gain weight at present. It was framed as a boundary-setting message to online commenters rather than a health update.

A familiar pattern: praise, then punishment

Choi’s arc illustrates a recurring dynamic for public figures who share major physical change online: initial admiration for discipline or recovery can flip into moralizing or mockery once a body crosses whatever line commentators deem acceptable.

In her case, the same person can be told to eat more for her mother’s sake and, in the same breath, insulted for how that body looks — a contradiction she made explicit on August 20.

Korean entertainment coverage on August 20–21 treated the post as a direct rebuttal to that cycle, not as a new weight-loss announcement. For readers following Choi Jun-hee in English-language searches, the core news is straightforward: she publicly refused to accept ongoing body-shaming and asked for the harassment to stop.

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Discussion

1. When does “concern” about someone’s weight cross into harassment?

Choi was told both to gain weight for her late mother’s sake and that her body was disgusting. Where do you draw the line between genuine worry and comments that should never be posted?

2. Should public figures owe strangers explanations for how they look?

Choi said she cannot gain weight while on supplements and apologized — even though the criticism was not hers to answer. Do influencers invite that scrutiny by sharing transformation content, or does sharing never justify abuse?

If you have followed Choi Jun-hee’s journey, share where you think online commentary about women’s bodies should stop.