8_Days__June_1_2017

scene & Heard
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CELEBRITY AGENCY
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Weighty
issues
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
DAYS
You got
served: Tay Ping
Hui serving healthy
lunch sets to a line
of hungry primary this we
school kids last week hear about
as part of Food you being
Revolution
Day. 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
(laughs). I loved to eat
tidbits, and I loved sugar.
I still remember I used