japanese snowboarder
Melo Imai ( 今井 メロ, 今井 夢露, Imai Mero, born 26 October 1987 in Suminoe-ku, Osaka ) [ 1 ] is a japanese tarento and half-pipe snowboarder. Her maid name is Narita ( 成田 ). Imai ‘s beget is snowboarding coach Takashi Narita, and she has two brothers : former snowboarder Dome Narita and trampoliner Grim Narita. She gave up snowboard after the 2006 Winter Olympics and became a television presenter, then a nude model appearing in respective intaglio printing DVD ‘s. In 2017 she had a light career as pornographic film actress and in 2018 announced a rejoinder to snowboarding. [ 2 ] The lapp year she won the All Japan Snowboarding Championships, greatly outpacing the competition with an consuming win and only 4 days of discipline for the event. [ 3 ]

early liveliness [edit ]

From the old age of 7, Imai ‘s father, snowboarding passenger car Takashi Narita ( 成田 隆史 ), trained her and her brother Dome in snowboarding. They trained up to 18 hours a day, and when they finished high educate, he had them forgo post-secondary education to focus on snowboarding. Imai has said she envied others her senesce for being able to lead ordinary lives, and at one point attempted to take her life by slashing her wrists .

early snowboarding career [edit ]

Imai specialized in the half-pipe. She participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, but came in last after hard injuring herself. Upon her recurrence to Japan, she suffered public humiliation, with commenters calling her “ a waste of tax money ” and “ a national embarrassment ”. She former stated, “ For many athletes, the Olympics are the peak of their career, but for me it was a nightmare. ” She suffered from depression, and gave up the sport.

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career in the arouse industry, nude model and AV career [edit ]

After leaving the sport, Imai supported herself over the years by working in bars, and soon became a stewardess and then an escort, working three days at a sex parlor. [ 5 ] She moved on to appearing in television receiver programs as a tarento and as a nude model in pornographic magazines. between 2014 and 2016 she appeared in over a twelve nude intaglio printing DVD ‘s, a music genre of softcore pornography, all of them being produced by the company Kingdom. [ 6 ] In 2017 she made her hard-core pornographic television début in Snow Drop and Snow Out. Both movies were released by Muteki, an AV company specializing in making the pornographic film debuts of gravure idols and minor celebrities. Upon being asked why she did n’t maintain a longer career in AV, Imai said that she was more matter to in returning to snowboarding and “ did n’t wanted to overdo it in AV ”. [ 7 ]

return to snowboarding [edit ]

Imai returned to snowboarding in 2017, and won gold at the All Japan Snowboarding Championships in 2018.

personal life [edit ]

Imai has a son and daughter, whom she has raised as a single mother. Imai has stated she is not embarrassed by her past in pornography, as she did it voluntarily out of the want for money, and considers herself to have been a good mother who did everything to support her children .

independent results [edit ]

Outcome Year Championship Summary Reference
Won 2001 All Japan Ski Championships Snowboarding
Won 2002 World Junior Championship
Won 2004 All-Japan Ski Championship Tournament Snowboard Competition
Won 2005 2004–05 FIS Snowboard World Cup Korea Star Capital Association
Third 2005 World Cup Lake Placid Tournament
Overall win 2005 World Cup Event
Won 2005 2004–05 Season World Cup Saas Fee Olympics
Qualified 2006 Turin Olympics [8][9][10]
Won 2008 Takasago Cup
Won 2018 All Japan Snowboarding Championships She won with 90.75, bettering second place’s 76.75 of Momoa Mori [3]

Filmography [edit ]

television play [edit ]

Year Title Role Network Notes
2015 Garo: Gold Storm Sho Begul’s tongue form TV Tokyo Episode 13

bibliography [edit ]

Year Title
2012 Naite, Yande, demo Waratte

photograph albums [edit ]

Year Title
2013 Mellow Style
2015 Melodious

videodisk [edit ]

Year Title
2008 mellow lee;
2014 mellow Style
2014 I’ve been mellow
2014 mellow juice
2014 mellow time

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