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Andie Chen: "I lost weight till I got sick."
By Han Wei Chou Posted: 06 January 2011 1113 hrs

This article is about two actors sacrifice for the sake of their role in the MediaCorp drama. First, the Singapore screen veteran Chen Hanwei's pulled out his teeth because of the drama "The Best Things in Life". Second, it was Andie Chen who shed ten kilos in a little over a month just to play his character more convincingly in his upcoming Mandarin drama "Prosperity" and even fall sick because of it. Andie Chan had a rough idea of the character and so he went for the imaging and thought that this character would be more convincing if he is really skinny so he lost six kilograms before the shooting began. When he saw the rushes, he discovered that he was right so he decided to lose another four kilograms. However, this drastically loss of weight took a toll of his health as he reduced his food intake and worked out less.

I feel that it is not worth it to deteriorate their health for the sake for acting a drama. A drama will last a period of time only but worsen their health will last forever as it is not easy to repair their health to their original form when it has already damaged. Andie Chan can exercise and eat lesser to lose weight but not reduced his food income drasmatically. This caused him to be fatigue everytime as he does not have the nutrition and energy. So he is not setting a good example to the public, I think that he shouldn't do this as the young children may learn from him. We should always emphasise on exercising more to lose weight and not starve ourselves.