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Hyomin Of
T-ara Sheds Her Tomboy Look In New Photo Spread For The June Issue Of Instyle Korea
The last time singer Hyomin of K-pop girl group T-ara was featured in the Korean edition of Instyle, she was dressed as a conservative tomboy, with short hair and outfits that left a lot to the imagination.
As the Bob Dylan lyric goes, "things have changed."
Hyomin is all woman in the June issue of Instyle, featuring a longer hairstyle and flirty outfits with a fun, springtime feeling.
The photos, which were posted on Hyomin's official Instagram account this week, immediately caused a stir among T-ara fans.
"I need some air!" one fan commented, according to the website DKPopNews.
Back in January, when she did her last Instyle photo shoot, Hyomin also opened up to the magazine about her search for inner peace.
"I'm feeling how precious it is to be where I am," she said. "Now I'm going to look forward, back, and sideways while carefully watching over my family and friends. Step by step, I believe I can build up myself completely."
An Instyle representative said that Hyomin was a pleasure to work with.
"She was incredible with an alluring charm yet having the tomboy look," the representative said. "She was dreamy and captivating."
Earlier this month, Hyomin and her T-ara N4 bandmates met with American hip hop artist Chris Brown in Los Angeles, amidst intense fan speculation that a collaboration could be in the works.
T-ara N4 is a sub-unit of the seven-piece T-ara.
When the four members of T-ara N4 touched down at LAX, they were met by 300 screaming fans and 18 bodyguards Brown had sent to escort them to their hotel, according to the website Allkpop.
Later that day, the girls visited the rapper at the set of his new music video.
"I've wanted to meet you," Brown gushed.
"Thank you for liking our music, inviting us to the United States and even sending out a limousine and bodyguards," one of the members of T-ara N4 answered.
The girls presented Brown with a ceramic pot as a token of thanks, according to Popdust.
The warm welcome, was assuredly a nice change of pace for the members of the group, who have had to be on the defensive about charges they hounded former member Hwayoung out of T-ara.
"People might think [we bullied Hwayoung] if you just read everything that's online," T-ara N4's Eunjung told the host of the South Korean television show "Beatles Code 2."
"But even I was rumored to being bullied. To be honest, we had an argument with Hwayoung for about two days during the incident. But it was wrong of us to publicly make statements through Twitter. It was wrong to write about the topic, period."
Eunjung added that the online speculation of K-pop fans and various media outlets only made matters worse, particularly when the band didn't respond to the rumors directly.
"The more we stayed silent, the rumors and misunderstandings kept growing," she said. "It was so bad that even we were getting confused. I thought I'd lived without any regrets, but I was pained because I felt I'd become a bad person."
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