IVY gains Broadway but gives up beauty, saying "I've aged rapidly"

Singer and musical actress IVY confessed that in exchange for entering her dream destination, Broadway, she has let go of her beauty. Although an actress must be more glamorous than anyone else on stage, she has been spending such intense time that she even said, "I don't even have the desire to look pretty" during the actual process of preparing for a performance.

On the 6th, IVY revealed the preparation process leading up to her entry into New York's Broadway with the musical 'Chicago' through her channel 'IVYTV'. Ahead of her first performance, IVY was clinging to practice to adapt to an environment different from the domestic stage.

In particular, what IVY focused on was the actors' "mouths." She explained, "I realized that foreigners really open their mouths a lot," adding, "Our head shapes themselves are different. It feels like they have more space." She continued by stating that she is also practicing opening her mouth wide to increase her expressiveness on stage.

The problem is that she has to use her facial muscles that intensely. IVY said, "I have to open my mouth a lot and use my muscles a lot." When asked, "Don't you use those muscles well?", she revealed an unexpected concern: "I use them well, but many wrinkles are forming."

IVY expressed her bittersweet feelings, saying, "My skin is already thin and has many wrinkles, but I feel like I'm going to go there with deep wrinkles formed from this." As she must pour out intense expressions and movements on stage, it was an unexpected concern for a star who usually pays attention to appearance management.

And after finishing practice one day before the performance, she became even more honest. IVY said, "Since coming here, my appearance has aged rapidly. I have given up on beauty," and "I don't even have the desire to look pretty." Since she is facing the Broadway stage, it meant that what is important to her now is the performance itself, not her appearance.

The path IVY chose was far from the glamorous red carpet. It was a process of sweating and overworking her facial muscles to prepare for the stage every day. Behind the joking confession of "giving up on beauty" lies the intense challenge of actress IVY, who has thrown herself entirely into the new stage of Broadway.

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