EMILY
Emi Yanagimoto — Tokyo born, based between Dubai and Japan.
For years, I treated myself
like something replaceable.
I started working in Japanese entertainment as a teenager, and I was told to lose ten kilos more times than I can count. I believed every audition I lost was my body's fault. There were months of one bowl of soup a day, and years of eating and purging in secret.
Fitness is what changed it — not because it made me thinner, but because it was the first time I fed my body instead of punishing it. What I had actually been suffering from was never my shape. It was how ordinary it had become to treat myself carelessly.
Today I teach women the thing I needed then: how to build a body, and a relationship with themselves, that does not depend on the number on the scale.
20 April 1992
Tokyo, Japan
Dubai & Japan
161cm
57kg
ENFJ
A short timeline
- 2016 Began weight training after reaching the heaviest weight of my life.
- 2017 Best Body Japan — Grand Prix, Girls Class (Saitama and National finals).
- 2018 Started as a personal trainer in Omotesando, Tokyo — six and a half years on the floor. Musclemania World Fitness America Weekend, Las Vegas — 2nd place, Ms. Bikini.
- 2019 Muscle Contest Japan — 1st place, Bikini Novice B.
- 2022 APF Rookie of the Year Championships — 1st place, Bikini Model. APF Grand Championships — two annual titles.
- 2023 APF Diamond Cup — 1st place, Runway Model. Moved my base to Dubai and began coaching across both countries.
- 2026 Launched Re:ME, an online community for body and mind.
Credentials
- NESTA Personal Fitness Trainer (PFT)
- Athlete Food Meister
- Shokuiku (Food Education) Advisor
- Protein Meister
Ambassador: CRONOS ／ Nutrimuscle
Audience
My message — that your weight, body fat percentage and appearance are not the measure of you — reaches over 8 million accounts a month across social platforms.
Where I share
YouTube
Full days of eating, training sessions you can follow along with, and how I kept my waistline while going from 47kg to 57kg at 161cm. Longer, unedited, honest.
EMILY CHANNEL →
Short reels and daily notes on training, food and letting go of the beliefs we hold about our bodies.
@emiyanagimoto →
Both channels are in Japanese, but the training and food content follows easily without it.
Re:ME
A two-month online community where women rebuild their relationship with their body and their mind together. It currently runs in Japanese only.
Let's talk.
I am open to brand partnerships, campaigns, seminars, speaking engagements, events and press. Enquiries in English are very welcome — please use the form and write to me in English.