Former TVB artiste Vivien Yeo has found great success in business after shifting her focus to entrepreneurship and returning to Malaysia to develop her beauty empire. Although she's now stepped back from the spotlight, she still regularly shares her updates online and interacts with fans. Recently, she recorded a video revealing her painful experience of losing control due to stress, leading to binge eating and even relying on medication to lose weight at one point.
She disclosed that when she first went to Hong Kong to pursue her career, she felt extremely helpless as she had no family or friends around, and wasn't fluent in Cantonese. This led her to use binge eating as a way to relieve stress. She stated: "It wasn't because I was hungry, but because there were many things that I couldn't control. Eating was the only thing I felt I could control and could bring me brief happiness." However, at that time she was also starting to shoot drama series roles, which required her to maintain a slim figure. As a result, she resorted to the most harmful but also the fastest way to lose weight. She continued: "I chose to take western medication to slim down, but the consequence was that both my emotions and health got very bad. I was really pushed to the edge of despair during that period."
Due to the health impacts caused by the medication, she even once considered giving up on life. Fortunately, she eventually saw things in a new light. She said: "I realized that I needed to be responsible for my own life, and from then on, I learned to love myself. I understood that while physique can be managed, it’s even more important to manage your mindset. Besides improving outward appearance, what matters most is feeling that you are worth it."#
Source: On.cc