ChoA Cannot Let Go of Her Miracle Twins — Here Is Why

Former Crayon Pop member ChoA shared a quiet, tearful admission with her followers: she wants to stop breastfeeding her twin sons, but every time she thinks about it, her eyes well up. Coming from a woman who once feared she might never be a mother at all, the moment carried far more weight than she probably intended.

ChoA — whose full name is Heo Min-jin — revealed that she and her twin boys are now 70 days into a combination of breastfeeding and formula feeding. The update, shared on her personal social media, offered a candid look at the exhausting and tender reality of raising two newborns simultaneously.

A Miracle That Almost Didn't Happen

To understand why ChoA's twin sons feel like such a hard-won miracle, you have to go back to 2021, when she married a businessman six years her senior. The couple began preparing to start a family the following year — only for a routine prenatal check-up to reveal something devastating: ChoA had been diagnosed with Stage 1 cervical cancer, with a tumor measuring approximately 3 centimeters.

In an industry that rarely slows down for illness, ChoA stepped back and faced the diagnosis head-on. In 2023, she underwent surgery to remove the cancer while also preserving her fertility — a procedure that carried significant risk but ultimately succeeded. Without a cervix following the operation, she was considered high-risk for preterm labor, and doctors proceeded carefully.

She turned to in vitro fertilization (IVF), a path many couples facing fertility challenges take after medical complications. Doctors implanted a single embryo — but in what ChoA herself described as a "one percent miracle," it naturally split into identical twins. The chance of a single IVF embryo dividing into twins is extraordinarily rare, and for a woman who had spent years wondering whether she would ever carry a child, the news was almost incomprehensible.

In September 2025, she announced the pregnancy to the world, writing on social media: "A precious life we have been desperately waiting for has finally come to us. Ten weeks and two days pregnant — and they are identical twins." The post was met with an outpouring of support from fans and fellow celebrities alike.

The Birth, and What She Said in That Hospital Room

The road to delivery was not straightforward. In February 2026, ahead of her due date, ChoA was hospitalized after experiencing contractions and sudden bleeding. Fans waited anxiously. Then, on February 27, 2026, she shared the news: her twin sons had arrived safely. Neither baby required care in the neonatal intensive care unit — they were healthy enough to stay with their parents from the start.

ChoA's first message from the hospital stopped many of her followers in their tracks. "I gave birth to these healthy identical twin boys in the same place where I had my first cancer surgery in 2023," she wrote. "I truly cannot believe this is real. It feels like a miracle." The post, accompanied by a simple heart emoji, was shared tens of thousands of times.

She named the boys with the nicknames "Jjin-i" and "Kkung-i" — playful, affectionate monikers that fans quickly adopted as their own.

The Daily Reality of Twin Motherhood

Seventy days in, ChoA has been sharing glimpses of what it actually looks like to raise twins alone through the night. In a recent social media post, she described the quiet intensity of early-morning feeding sessions: "Late-night nursing — a feeling of being fully merged with my baby, just the two of us in the silent universe." It was a poetic framing of something most new parents experience as sheer survival mode.

But the reality is also demanding in ways she did not sugarcoat. "My original goal was to make it to 100 days," she wrote, "but doing both breastfeeding and formula means I'm dealing with the exhaustion of both — and with twins, everything has to happen twice." She described the routine: feed one baby, burp him, hold him — and immediately begin again with the second. "When they cry at the same time, it's absolute chaos," she said. Her husband's nickname — "Kkeo-bi" — appeared in her posts as she described calling on him for backup.

The moment that resonated most deeply with her followers came when she admitted she has been thinking about stopping breastfeeding altogether. "Some days it feels like I've hit my absolute limit," she wrote. "But every time I actually think about stopping, my nose starts tingling already." That phrase — a distinctly Korean expression for the feeling before tears come — landed like a gut punch. She is exhausted, but she is not ready to let go.

A Full Recovery, and Eyes on the Future

In early April, ChoA gave an update that reassured the many fans who had followed her health journey closely. A check-up at her OB-GYN showed no abnormalities — her recovery was described as clean and complete. True to her nature, she turned the moment into a small, characteristic joke: "I told my doctor I'd be back to say hello with a third one," she wrote, signaling that the woman who once worried she might never have children is already, if lightly, thinking about more.

She also shared that her weight recovery was two kilograms away from her pre-pregnancy baseline — noting with dry humor that she was feeling the urge to exercise again.

What Her Journey Means

ChoA's story has resonated far beyond K-pop fan communities. Crayon Pop, the girl group she was part of during her active idol career, debuted in 2012 and became known for their energetic, unconventional concepts. ChoA was one of its most prominent members. After stepping back from the spotlight to focus on her personal life and health, she has maintained a warm relationship with fans through social media.

Her willingness to document the full arc of her experience — from the cancer diagnosis to the surgery, the IVF process, the anxious pregnancy, the emergency hospitalization, the miracle birth, and now the bone-tired beauty of new motherhood — has made her something of a touchstone for fans who have faced their own health challenges. She did not perform resilience. She showed it, imperfectly and in real time.

For anyone who has followed ChoA since her Crayon Pop days, watching her nurse twin sons in the early hours of the morning — tired, tearful, and grateful — feels less like a celebrity update and more like witnessing someone live out a story that could so easily have ended differently. The miracle, it turns out, keeps showing up in the small moments too.