How did the champion of Dancing With the Stars lose 30 kg?

​From 90 kg, Thanh Huyen lost nearly 30 kg after two months of participating in the show Step Up to a Thousand Pounds season three. It was a difficult and arduous journey for the mother of one.

Surpassing two male contestants in the final night on November 11, Thanh Huyen became the champion of Dancing with the Stars season three. Sharing with Zing.vn after the victory, the mother of one could not hide her emotions.

Thanh Huyen excellently won the championship

With red eyes and emotion, she said: "The journey of losing nearly 30 kg in the program is truly unbelievable. Every day of training, soaked in sweat and tears, are memorable things in my life."

I gave up singing because of my weight complex.

Thanh Huyen said she started gaining a lot of weight after becoming pregnant with her first child. From a girl with a well-proportioned body, 1.65 m tall and weighing 55 kg, Thanh Huyen became obese, weighing nearly 90 kg. She gained so much that after giving birth, she could not lose weight.

Thanh Huyen's image when she weighed 90 kg.

Not only that, ovarian cysts are also a factor that disrupts the endocrine system, causing the female contestant to gain weight uncontrollably. Having graduated from the Vocal Music Department of the Military University of Culture and Arts, Thanh Huyen has been pursuing singing for the past 8 years, so she cannot accept her "fat" body. She gave up singing, gave up going out with friends. She is not even interested in going shopping.

"I just stayed at home. My husband invited me to meet his friends, but I was self-conscious about my appearance, so I refused all invitations. I also didn't dare to return to the stage because no one would accept a singer with a large body like me. So I chose to earn extra income by selling online," she recalled.

For the past 4 years, Thanh Huyen admitted that she lived with inferiority complex, self-confidence and stress. She felt stuck and like she had lost everything due to her uncontrolled weight gain. "The more inferiority complex and sadness I had, the more sleepless I became and the more fat I became. Without my husband's encouragement, I would not have been able to overcome it. No matter how overweight I was, he never criticized or disappointed me."

Many times fainted from fatigue

Coming to Dance with a Thousand Pounds is Thanh Huyen's last hope of losing weight. The journey of 12 episodes in 2 months is truly memorable for the singer born in 1988.

She said her two-month diet consisted of vegetables, no white rice, and only ate 1/4 of what other contestants ate. Eating little and practicing hard made Thanh Huyen so tired that she couldn’t cry. During stressful times, she even fainted.

The mother of one has a slim figure after losing 30 kg.

"In two months, I fainted 3-4 times. Ginger tea gave me the strength to overcome hunger and fatigue. When I was stressed, I ran to a corner, called my husband and children, and all my fatigue disappeared immediately," she said.

The mother of one said that the greatest joy she achieved after Dancing with the Stars was not necessarily the championship position but losing the excess weight that had haunted her for the past 4 years. Therefore, Thanh Huyen said she planned to return to music. She said: "I am planning to release a single at the end of this year. In addition, I am also determined to exercise to keep my figure in shape."

According to Zing