Kei Fubuki Reveals that She was a Former CA! An Unexpected Comment from Her Boss after Discovering her Gravure Appearances!
Gravure was meant to be a sideline.
I shot a scene in a real high-class club in Ginza, where I wore a dress and served customers. It was a glamorous world I had never been to before.
Kei Fubuki, who plays a club hostess in the movie “Welcome to Le Jardin,” debuted in Gravure in 2021, and has been active since then, making her presence felt in a variety of media, movies, and TV dramas.
In the October 18 issue of FRIDAY, she is featured in a “cover story” that challenges the limits of sexiness, and her disclosure of her background as a “former CA” is also attracting a great deal of attention. We asked her to look back on the time when she was doing gravure without telling her family as well as her company.
I moved to Tokyo when I was 20 and worked as a CA for three years until I was 23. But soon after I joined the company, I had a COVID-19 crisis, which is not really good, but I was working part-time as a wedding dress model. At that time, I was asked, ‘How about gravure or something?’ I started because I wanted to be like Eiko Koike,” she said.
Although she started gravure with a light heart, she was inundated with offers immediately after her debut. She appeared in a variety of magazines, and her gravure activities became known to the company.
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I still appreciate it.”
The day before boarding, I suddenly received an e-mail telling me that I had been reassigned to ground duty. I usually tell my friends who know I do gravure that ‘they probably know,’ and I was pretty sure the company knew.
I thought I would be fired right away, but they thought about it and told me, ‘You can either continue your entertainment career or quit and continue working at CA. I was told to choose one or the other. I am still grateful to the airline for the three years I spent there, as it helped shape my personality to what I am today. On the day I went to return my uniform after I decided to resign, I was told, “I know you have a lot of hard work ahead of you, but do your best. You can come back anytime.
Ms. Fubuki had a dream as a CA. That was to become an instructor to train CAs. She says she had a strong yearning to see the backs of her instructors, who were both strict and kind.
The instructor who trained me was a very scary person,” she said. But when I decided to quit CA, he said, ‘I’m proud of you, so sign me up. He said, ‘I’m really proud of you, so sign me up. The airline was really nice to me.
On the other hand, reporting to her family was not a simple matter: she had to keep her activities as a gravure idol while working as a CA a secret from them as well…
PHOTO： Masakazu Yoshiba
