Former Idol Returns Unrecognizable After Three-Month Break, Sparks Speculations

“Why do they keep changing the very faces that made them attractive?”

Former AOA member Choa has shared gorgeous selfies via Instagram for the first time in three months, but the update has since sparked speculations over possible cosmetic procedures.

Former AOA member Choa | @queenchoa_/Instagram

On October 25, 2025 (KST), Choa posted the pictures from a YouTube shoot. In the pictures, she is sporting dark brown hair—a striking change from her signature bleached blonde or brighter-colored look.

| @queenchoa_/Instagram

| @queenchoa_/Instagram

As her last selfie update came in early July, K-Pop fans—and even her fellow celebrity friends, like broadcaster Lee Ji Hye and former 4Minute member Nam Jihyun—were surprised by her total transformation…

Choa’s update from July 2025. | @queenchoa_/Instagram

| @queenchoa_/Instagram

• “Ack, so pretty!”
• “Aw, I’m floored by your beauty, unnie…”
• “Oh my! How did you get even prettier…?!”
• “Our prettiest girl!!!”
• “Choa is getting prettier and prettier as time goes by.”

…with some asking if she had gotten work done on her face to look so different.

| Nate

• “I really don’t get these celebrities. Taeyeon, Son Naeun, and now Choa… Why do they keep changing the very faces that made them attractive, only to ruin them themselves?”
• “Oh no… She’s turned into Tsuki?”
• “It’s not just any transformation… She looks like a completely different person.”
• “She must not have realized why she was popular in the first place. What a shame.”
• “I thought it was AI. If they hadn’t said it was Choa, I wouldn’t have recognized her at all.”
• “Sigh… She was already beautiful enough, but now she looks like a One Piece cartoon character.”
• “She looked better before.”

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