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8 Days
|June 01, 2017
Former fat kid Tay Ping Hui tells us about the importance of eating healthy.
It’s hard to imagine former model Tay Ping Hui as the resident fat kid in school. But that’s exactly what the 46-year-old actor was. “I was overweight and clumsy (laughs),” he tells us over the phone. His childhood battle with the bulge is why Ping Hui is more than happy to support Food Revolution, a campaign aimed at combating child obesity. The movement was launched by British celeb chef Jamie Oliver almost a decade ago. Last Friday, Ping Hui, in partnership with the Brit chef’s local restaurant Jamie’s Italian Singapore, showed up at Raffles Girls’ Primary School to take over the school’s canteen, where the star helped to whip up and serve healthy pasta to 1,800 students. We catch up with the actor after his very busy morning to ask him about his, in Ping Hui’s own words, “fat days”.
8 DAYS: What’s this we hear about you being overweight in primary school?
TAY PING HUI: I became fat when I was nine and it lasted till I was 12 or 13. I was probably about 159cm and weighed over 60kg. My waist was like 32 inches (
This story is from the June 01, 2017 edition of 8 Days.
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