AsBlackpink’s original member, the rapperJennie Kimhas every reason to be on top of the world.

“But one thing I wish is to maybe have lived at home until I was like 18,19.

A lot of people make lots of memories as a high school student.

Jennie Kim from Blackpink

But I never had that.”

She also noted all the ways pursuing a successful K-pop career can wear one down.

“We always have to be on stage looking perfect and performing the same thing.

Jennie Kim of Blackpink

It’s like working out for two hours every day.

It never gets easy.

Gets harder, actually, ‘cause you age.”

“Singing, dancing, and rapping, I always enjoy it all the time,” Jennie says.

“They have classes in school to go out, go camping, go learn instruments.

If you want, do art,” she recalls.

“Everything was up to you.

Like, even if you’re 10, you still got to make your own decisions.

That was very important for me to have at a young age.

That built me as who I am right now.”