Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress, and semi-retired model. Anna was born to a Japanese mother and an American father with Irish and Polish roots She has a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older sister, Angela, who is a model as well.
Tsuchiya's career began at the age of fourteen when she was hired to model for Seventeen. Her demand grew, and by 2002 she was doing television ads for Uniqlo, Edwin, and K...
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Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress, and semi-retired model. Anna was born to a Japanese mother and an American father with Irish and Polish roots She has a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older sister, Angela, who is a model as well.
Tsuchiya's career began at the age of fourteen when she was hired to model for Seventeen. Her demand grew, and by 2002 she was doing television ads for Uniqlo, Edwin, and Kosé products.
She tried hard to lose weight during her stint as a model. At 1.67m (5 ft 6 in) and 44 kg (97 lbs), she was considered to be overweight and short for a model in Japan.
She experienced mental and physical agony at the time, and can hardly remember anything she ate back then. After an incident when Tsuchiya was fifteen years old in which she awoke starving one morning to find that her legs didn't work due to severe malnutrition, she was forced to drag herself — using only hands — to the refrigerator.
According to her, some models...
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