Irina Ponarovskaya. Photo: social networks.
Irina Ponarovskaya has always been considered the standard of femininity and beauty. In pursuit of thinness, the artist was ready to make any sacrifice. On Svetlana Bondarchuk’s YouTube show “Worlds Around the World,” the singer admitted that she had undermined her health due to extreme diets. Her dangerous weight loss methods nearly took her life.
In her youth, according to Ponarovskaya, she was a rather dense girl. At the age of 13, the future star weighed 78 kilograms. The singer clarified that she was never “fat”, but rather “big”. She actively participated in dancing and swimming, but her weight still did not disappear. And then she decided to refuse the food.
“I started losing weight incorrectly. Then I stopped eating. I also took some medications that a lady recommended to me. There was no Internet. There is no way to know anything. There were no nutritionists then! Furthermore, my grandmother’s doctor told my mother: “You have a fat girl,” Ponarovskaya recalls.
As a result, due to exhausting diets, his body failed. Irina was 24 years old then.
“The balance is now firm: to live or not to live. The kidneys failed. She was losing weight, the reason was dieting. I was a fat girl and then I wanted to be beautiful. I saw myself in the mirror. I understood that it was ugly. If you want to go on stage, go ahead, your waist must measure 50 centimeters,” said the 71-year-old singer.
Several years ago, Irina revised her diet and excluded meat and fish from it. Despite the sad experience of her youth, the singer did not abandon radical methods to combat weight. Ponarovskaya has another way to lose weight, but also extreme: fasting.
“The method is therapeutic, it has nothing to do with the figure, but as an additional benefit, it allows me to return to the desired parameters at all times. This is fasting. Very fast fast: water and 30 days. My longest period is 32 days. Without food! – assures Ponarovskaya.
At the same time, the singer emphasizes that she in no way asks to follow her example and says that fasting can be dangerous for people who are not prepared.
“If I talk about fasting it does not mean that I am campaigning. God forbid. This is just one method. For many people this is unacceptable,” he says.
