Who is s(he)?

Nanami Kana, who’s actually a 45-year-old man, poses as a female influencer online. Pics/Twitter

Nanami Kana looks like a Japanese teenage girl in most of the photos she posts on Twitter, but she recently shocked her fans with photos of herself from 12 years ago in which she appeared as a bearded, overweight man. Kana is a Japanese influencer with around 35,000 Twitter followers who's actually a man. The petite influencer is actually just the online persona of a 45-year-old father-of-one, who simply enjoys putting on women's clothes and posing as a teenage girl.

Nanami really blew her fans' minds last year, when he first posted photos of himself 12 years ago, revealing that he was over 60 kg heavier than today. He shared an old photo of himself last June which went viral. His followers were shocked by his transformation and demanded to know how he pulled it off. It turns out that it all started eight years ago when he weighed a whopping 115 kg and his doctor warned him that he was at risk of developing serious health problems.

The doctor's words made the influencer think about his life, and he started dieting, relying on tofu as the main source of nutrients throughout the day. It took him about five years, but he managed to lose more than half his body weight. He now weighs only 54 kg and wears medium-size clothes compared to XXL. After the extreme weight loss, Nanami was able to fulfil his dream of modelling young women's clothes and establishing a decent online following in the process.

Havey-cavey business

Woman voluntarily isolates in a cave for 500 days as an experiment

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Robo-Doc

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Spooky dancing

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A surprising ‘cat-ch'

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‘Chess'ing around

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Some motivation, indeed!

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