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Beautiful Japanese snowboarder Mero Imai (30) has been the first champion of Japan's 35th Japan snowboarding championship. But he did not pass the selection for the Italian winter Olympics in 2006 and had become a prostitute.
"I was raped when I was a child aged 17 years at the time, so it seems life has been messy since then," Mero Imai said recently.
Imai now even became an adult film star who admitted also attempted suicide and seek psychiatric care to heal the troubled trauma of the past.
But his victory goes back to the snowboarding, making him bounce back.
Imai acknowledged his father's intensive training program that started when he was only 6 years old, and rising and falling up made him stressful.
Later Imai starred in two adult video productions (AV) for Muteki's popular label.
Imai separated from his father in 2002 and entered the child welfare center. He said he eventually became depressed and had been treated in a mental hospital.
Despite the trials and tribulations, Imai scored a number of achievements, including victories in the FIS Snowboard World Cup 2004-05.
But he lost during qualifying in representing Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy.
After being praised as a prodigy, Imai said he had felt devastated after a public reaction, which claimed he was "wasting taxpayer money" and "embarrassing Japan."
Finally unable to get out, Imai became a hikikomori, or a hermit, for six months until he decided to "become a normal girl" by moving to Osaka.
In Osaka, Imai works as a bar hostess and plays in hosto clubs by spending 5 million yen.
Imai then turns to work as a Commercial Sex Worker (PSK) after the sponsorship money he saves from his snowboarding days has run out.
"I want to give congratulations at my friend's wedding, so I work for three days at a sex home," Imai said.
His life began to change and Imai attempted suicide by cutting his wrist.
"I just want to get out of this world," said Imai frustrated.
Later Imai worked as a television personality, autobiographical writing and appearances in a nude photography collection.
She also married and gave birth to two children but later divorced.
Two months before the release of AV's debut for Muteki in March 2018, she managed to occupy first place in the 35th Japanese Snowboarding Championship.
"I am very nervous because this is the first time I have used a super-pipe after 11 years," said Imai recalling his victory.