{"id":15459,"date":"2025-07-23T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15459\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:55:09","slug":"sophia-and-manon-of-katseye-open-up-about-confidence-and-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15459\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia and Manon of KATSEYE Open Up About Confidence and Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThey\u2019re part of a global phenomenon. Millions follow their every move, every performance, every post. But behind the curated content and camera-ready confidence, Sophia and Manon of KATSEYE<\/a> are still learning what it means to grow, to doubt, to believe in themselves.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn this intimate conversation, the two open up about the quiet resets, the unseen sacrifices, and the private fears that follow them even into the spotlight. From transforming their smiles with Invisalign to confronting online criticism and internal pressures, they reflect on what it really takes to stay grounded while living in a world that constantly watches \u2014 and judges.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the stage version of Sophia and Manon. This is a rare look inside the private worlds of two KATSEYE members \u2014 who they are when no one\u2019s watching.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s one moment from the past year that no one saw \u2014 but meant everything to you?<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: Something about me is, I used to walk a lot before I moved to L.A. to be in the group. And now I kind of do it more, I just find a space where I can be with myself and turn everything off. I either listen to music or have none at all. I love those memes that are like, \u201cOh my God, what dinosaur is this?\u201d but it\u2019s actually a butterfly. That kind of thing. It\u2019s so little and you\u2019re just like, that\u2019s so stupid \u2014 but I feel like those moments where I actually sit and take it in, you kind of see how big the world actually is and how small you really are.<\/p>\n

\n\tI feel like that really helps me \u2014 it\u2019s such a reset for my mind. I find a lot of moments to do that. And I just realized, when people say \u201ctouch grass,\u201d it is an actual thing. \u2019Cause it just makes you see that the world is actually bigger than everything. But recently, I\u2019ve had a lot of moments like that because of all the noise that\u2019s been happening, and it\u2019s been like the perfect reset for my mind and my mental.<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: The first thing that comes to mind is\u2014I was able to buy my mom a really, really nice gift. Something she\u2019s never, ever received in her whole life. She gave me a call and was sobbing on the phone, just saying, \u201cThis is insane.\u201d She was so proud of me, and I was crying too because I was just so happy that I\u2019m finally in a position where I can do this for her. That moment really hit\u2014it was kind of like, \u201cDamn, I made it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s one inner fear or insecurity you\u2019ve had to fight through silently, even while smiling on stage?<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: You know what\u2019s crazy? I feel like a lot of insecurities people have \u2014 especially for us, being in the spotlight and having a lot of eyes on us \u2014 are actually things people love about us. It\u2019s a common thing, where something you love most about someone can also end up being something that bothers them, or even you.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I was in the Dream Academy competition, people would tell me they admired my confidence, that it was something they really loved about me. But sometimes I see it from another angle, where I worry that maybe it comes off as too much, or I become hyper-aware of it when I shouldn\u2019t \u2014 because it is something admirable about me.<\/p>\n

\n\tA lot of times when I\u2019m on stage and I\u2019m fully confident, fully being the artist I know I am, I\u2019ll still have those moments in my head like, \u201cOh my God, am I doing too much? Are people gonna say something?\u201d And it\u2019s wild how the thing that\u2019s supposed to be your strength becomes something you question.So yeah, I think that\u2019s something I\u2019ve been realizing lately, especially being in this position and in a group\u2014just constantly surrounded by all this noise. It\u2019s really weird. It\u2019s crazy how it works like that.<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: Honestly, an insecurity of mine was always my smile \u2019cause I have a little tooth gap. Even before I became a trainee, I was like, \u201cThe first thing I\u2019m gonna do is fix my teeth.\u201d I didn\u2019t smile through, I just got Invisalign. No, but honestly, I always smile or laugh. I used to laugh like this [covers mouth]. And now I feel like Invisalign truly, honestly, has given me so much more confidence in my smile. That insecurity is now gone.<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: They always talk about how I\u2019m very bubbly, very smiley and bright. There\u2019s one video where we were all like monitoring our performance and everyone was like this [straight face]. Then I was like [smiles really hard], I remember I first saw it and I was like, \u201cWhat the heck?\u201d Like, \u201cWhy am I smiling so big and everything?\u201d But it was just me being myself, being happy about all of that. And it\u2019s all in the smile.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not normal to have thousands of strangers forming strong opinions about you \u2014 some of them unfair or even cruel. As a group, you\u2019ve faced a lot of chatter and hate. Beyond just logging off, how do you\u00a0really\u00a0protect your peace?<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: It\u2019s truly having five other girls in this group who go through the same thing, that gives us so much strength. Just knowing you\u2019re not doing this alone and then hitting all of these milestones and knowing you\u2019re doing it right. I think that gives me peace. Also, just not looking at all of that chit chatter. I honestly feel like when I do see hate, I know there\u2019s like a billion comments that protect us, defend us and send us love. It\u2019s just something that comes with what we do, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve both faced assumptions \u2014 Sophia, that your mom handed you a career; Manon, that your looks got you through the door. What\u2019s the part of your story people never see that would prove them wrong?<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: I think they don\u2019t see how hard we work because Sophia works her a\u2014 off 12 hours a day and so do I, all of us. It\u2019s really just our hard work that is keeping us here, or making us be successful and not literally anything else. Yes, Obviously looks help, or if you have any strength in another category that helps, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s our hard work. It\u2019s such a knife in the heart when we read those comments \u2019cause I work my ass off and if I were only pretty, I would not be here, like, that doesn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: Probably that hard work is always gonna trump what you first bring to the table. I feel like all of us are extremely talented and all of us are extremely beautiful \u2014 inside and out. But this truly is something that requires superhuman ability and if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. So, the only thing that\u2019s really keeping us here is our hard work, our fans, and our love for them. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s funny when people say things \u2014 for example, as if I didn\u2019t get this by myself, when clearly, I\u2019ve mentioned multiple times before, my parents had no idea that I auditioned for this. I\u2019m always gonna acknowledge the fact that I\u2019m so blessed, because I\u2019ve learned so much from my mom and both my parents. Truly, a lot of my hard work comes from them. I\u2019m so glad they passed down their talents to me and nurtured me to be where I am today. But you know, everybody takes everything they\u2019re given \u2014 and I chose to run with it. Along with all the hard work, the both of us would literally not be here.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf KATSEYE decided to stop the hard work, not just me and Manon, but like every single member of KATSEYE, if we stopped what we were doing right now and just decided to chill and slack off, nothing. \u201cGnarly\u201d wouldn\u2019t be popping off,\u00a0Beautiful Chaos\u00a0would not be popping off. Nothing. We wouldn\u2019t even have this Invisalign deal.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou both radiate confidence now \u2014 but what\u2019s something you had to unlearn to feel worthy of that confidence?<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: I think something I had to unlearn, personally, was getting my confidence solely from other people \u2014 and being dependent on that. Not saying that you shouldn\u2019t at all, because community is so important, and the people you surround yourself with help uplift you. But what I learned is that people cannot have confidence in me if I don\u2019t have confidence in myself \u2014 because I feel the same way about others.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can believe in another person as much as you can, and you can root for them as much as you can, but it\u2019s hard to help somebody who can\u2019t help themselves. So I had to learn how to make the active decision to work on my self-confidence and learn about myself \u2014 what I need, what makes me happy, and what makes me feel good.<\/p>\n

\n\tBecause even just taking the step to help myself makes it so much easier for other people to root for me too \u2014 and to reveal the things I\u2019m not seeing. It\u2019s like you\u2019re working with yourself, alongside the love from the people you love. And I think that\u2019s truly what was going to bring up my confidence.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s something I really had to learn. Because a lot of times, you\u2019re like, \u201cYou have to tell me that I feel this way \u2014 you have to tell me all of that.\u201d But it really comes from within, and your own active decisions, a lot of the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: I agree with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, even with all the fame, all the talent, all the honor and all the glory, when people compliment you, is there a part of you that still struggles to believe it sometimes?<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: Yeah, like all the time. I think it\u2019s because we are perfectionists, honestly. We tend to be really hard on ourselves. I see it when we have performances and the internet is obsessed, and we\u2019re sitting in the rehearsal room like, \u201cCould\u2019ve done better.\u201d I think we\u2019re really, really hard on ourselves.<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: Especially \u2019cause we hear so many comments that we kinda get used to hearing hate and good things, so sometimes it\u2019s hard to believe what\u2019s actually happening. Especially when we\u2019re such perfectionists and we see ourselves a certain way\u2014it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re just saying that to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just \u2014 it\u2019s harder for us to take compliments a lot of the time, even from our own team, just because we\u2019re always in our heads and wanting the best for ourselves.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe\u2019re all very young women who are learning confidence and learning what we need for ourselves. And it\u2019s a journey that \u2014 thank goodness \u2014 we\u2019re all going through together.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou recently partnered with Invisalign, a brand that\u2019s all about transformation and confidence. What does that journey \u2014 both physical and emotional \u2014 mean to you personally?<\/p>\n

\n\tSophia: I would say that it\u2019s an honor to partner with Invisalign because the both of us were actually already using it before the partnership even began, and so it felt truly authentic to have this going. One of the biggest reasons why we started Invisalign in the beginning was literally about transformation and confidence. I think that\u2019s a big part about who we are and what we wanna give to the world as artists and as members of KATSEYE. We wanna spread confidence, and we wanna show that we are confident in ourselves. And even if it\u2019s like through our smile, like through Invisalign \u2014 it really does amp it up a lot.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the cameras and the spotlight, was there a moment when you realized that confidence starts with how you feel about yourself, even in small things like your smile?<\/p>\n

\n\tManon: Always. I feel like all my life, even when I was still going to school, if I was doing my makeup and getting ready and putting on a cool outfit, I feel like that just boosts the confidence. For me, it\u2019s about how I present myself to the world.<\/p>\n

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