Actress Barbie Hsu is said to have serious health warning signs but she did not go to hospital because ‘her return flight ticket was booked’.

According to Sohu , Barbie Hsu arrived in Japan on January 29 and died on February 2. Her family said she died of flu and pneumonia. According to emergency department records at a hospital in a local town – which have not yet been confirmed by Japanese medical units – after Barbie Hsu’s blood oxygen level dropped to 89% and she had a crackling sound (the sound of lung damage), Barbie Hsu only received a fever-reducing injection. Instead of being hospitalized, she insisted on returning to the hotel for observation. This was the first time she missed the opportunity to receive treatment.

Actress Barbie Hsu. Photo: Weibo

After the medical team suggested that she be transferred to Tokyo General Hospital, this request was rejected by her and her family on the grounds that a return ticket had been booked on February 1. This could be said to be the second time she missed the golden opportunity for treatment. On the way back, Từ Hy Viên stopped breathing and had to rush back to the nearest community clinic. At this time, a CT scan showed that both lungs were white, indicating that her condition was very serious. At this time, an ambulance arrived to take Từ Hy Viên to the hospital. After she was taken away by ambulance, Từ Hy Đề and her mother accidentally posted a video of her dancing together at the hotel, which showed that her family was very subjective and did not pay too much attention to her problem. Some people commented that Từ Hy Viên’s relatives “probably thought it was just a mild cold that caused difficulty breathing. They did not expect it to become so serious that it became pneumonia”. The small clinic did not have medical expertise, and Từ Hy Viên eventually passed away.

The accuracy of the leaked records is currently unconfirmed.

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Twice faced death’s door of Từ Hy Viên

In 2016, when giving birth to her son Wang Xizhen, Xu Xiyuan had her second seizure and fell into a coma due to lack of oxygen, even losing her heartbeat and breathing. Her ex-husband, Wang Xiaofei, performed CPR and saved her life. At that time, Xu Xiyuan was in a coma for 10 days before waking up. Wang Xiaofei mentioned this incident in 2018: “Xiyuan’s face suddenly turned purple and she kept shaking on the bed. She didn’t respond no matter how I called her, she seemed to have lost consciousness. I tried to pry her mouth open, suddenly I found that she was no longer breathing! At that time, my heart almost stopped beating, my brain felt like it was electrocuted.”

A thought flashed through Wang Xiaofei’s mind: The nearest hospital was still 3-5 minutes away, and he was afraid that even if he could save Xi Yuan, she would still fall into a vegetative state due to lack of oxygen. Therefore, he forced himself to calm down and started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which finally helped his wife recover and saved her life.

The second time, in 2017, Barbie Hsu fainted and was taken to the hospital. At that time, she revealed that she had chronic heart disease mitral valve prolapse. In 2018, she fainted again and was taken to the Veterans Hospital due to a long-term cold. Barbie Hsu’s mother confirmed that the cold had caused her daughter’s epilepsy to relapse. At that time, Barbie Hsu had suffered two miscarriages.

Barbie Hsu and her ex-husband, Wang Xiaofei, and their two children. Photo: Sinchew

Physical weakness is the biggest problem of Barbie Hsu

According to Orientalsunday , Barbie Hsu is a perfectionist, pursuing the perfect beauty in showbiz: thin, white, when she debuted at the age of 17, despite having serious problems with epilepsy, heart disease… This led to the habit of anorexia, long-term fasting, and anorexia. 163 cm tall and weighing only 39 kg (86 lbs), when filming, she maintained her weight at 42 to 44 kg. Her weight loss method included fasting after noon, halving the portion size in the menu provided by a nutritionist, and exercising.

To maintain her weight, Barbie Hsu sometimes brought a “lunch box with only two pieces of rice and a piece of fermented tofu the size of a fingernail” on set. During one scene, the actress fainted and later admitted that she had not eaten for three days. Once, while she fainted while filming a commercial, the set staff lifted her shirt and saw that her waist and stomach were wrapped in a corset, according to Sinchew .

Hsu pursues beauty without regret. In 2004, she published the book Beauty Queen, sharing many beauty care techniques and causing a stir, even the book won the top spot for many consecutive years. Beauty Queen topped the Kingstone and Books.com.tw bestseller lists for 7 weeks and within just a month and a half, the number of prints exceeded 200,000 copies, setting an unprecedented sales record for art books and beauty books in Taiwan. In the book, Hsu introduced methods to maintain whitening, including taking anticoagulants for a long time in pursuit of perfect white skin. The actress admitted that although the drugs can make the skin look whiter, the side effects can cause bleeding, which is life-threatening. “I can’t accept that I’m not white enough,” she said on a TV show.

In her 2007 book Beauty Queen 2 , she also proposed “whitening injections,” which involve injecting whitening ingredients into the human body through intravenous injection. Notably, in 2016, France issued a complete ban on the use of any injectable products to whiten the skin or improve its radiance.

Barbie Hsu and her husband in the last days of her life. Photo: Weibo

Barbie’s obsession with beauty has been dubbed a “death march” in the high-end beauty industry. “We went camping in New Zealand and she brought three 32-inch suitcases, which contained Zeus beauty devices, oxygen infusion machines, and UV sterilizers,” Aya Liu, Barbie’s close friend and collaborator, told the TV show Amazing Life .

Barbie Hsu was born in 1976, is a Taiwanese actress and singer known for the TV series Meteor Garden, God of War, Summer Bubble … Since 2012, she has not acted in any films, her personal life is private. After divorcing businessman Wang Xiaofei at the end of 2021, she has not returned, mainly spending time taking care of her children. In 2022, she married DJ Koo, a Korean.

On February 3, local media quoted Barbie Hsu’s younger sister, Barbie Hsu, as saying that the actress died of flu and pneumonia while traveling in Japan during the Lunar New Year holiday.