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Nana stopped by “Salon Drip,” hosted by comedian Jang Do Yeon, where she dished on everything from her idol days to tattoo removal and getting hit on by strangers.
Early in the episode, Jang brought up Nana’s recent appearance at the Baeksang Arts Awards as a presenter, where she was caught searching the crowd for MC Suzy. Nana laughed, saying, “I was just so happy to see her! I spotted Suzy while waiting backstage, and she looked gorgeous. I wanted to tell her right away, but when I walked out, she was gone. I found her later in the dressing room and told her how beautiful she looked.”
The conversation shifted to Nana’s idol era, when Jang asked if she ever had to follow her agency’s direction, even if it clashed with her own preferences. Nana didn’t hold back. “That’s why I ended up in Orange Caramel,” she said. “Honestly, I ran away. It just wasn’t my thing. After School was more my style, but Orange Caramel wasn’t me at all. The name itself—I didn’t even like that. It didn’t suit my personality, and I had a lot of complaints back then.”
Still, she admitted she had her fun. “That moment when I screamed ‘Ha!’ in ‘Catallena’—that was actually my peak. I was fully enjoying it by then.”
Jang also pointed out how comfortable Nana seems in public without covering herself up. Nana agreed. “I don’t cover my face. I’m always out in the open, so people sometimes come up and say I look like Nana,” she laughed.
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Apparently, that resemblance gets attention. “I’ve had a lot of people ask for my number. One time at a pub, five guys came up to me. One of them even used a translation app to ask in Japanese—I guess he thought I was Japanese!” she said. “His friend checked my Instagram and went, ‘Dude, it is her!’” she added, laughing.
As for her famous tattoos scattered across her entire body, Nana revealed most of them are now gone. “They’re almost completely removed,” she said. “It’s painful, but I’ve got a high pain tolerance. I didn’t even use numbing cream the first five times.” Why? “It’s a hassle to put on. You have to leave it on for like three or four hours to make it work. I just didn’t want to sit there waiting.”
She said the most painful spots to erase were her chest, ribs, and the tops of her feet—but there’s one tattoo she’s keeping: 1968. “It’s my mom’s birth year. I want to leave that one.”
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