Birth Name:
Nancy Jewel McDonie (낸시 맥도니)
Stage name: Nancy (낸시)
Korean name: Lee Seung-ri (이승리)
Position: Maknae (youngest in the group), lead vocalist, visual
Birthday: April 13, 2000
Height: 162 cm (5ft 3¾ in)
Weight: 46kg (101 lbs)
Blood type: O
1. She’s Half American/Half Korean
Yes, you read it right, Nancy is half American and half Korean, as her dad is an American while her mom is a Korean. She’s born in Daegu in South Korea, however, she was raised in Ohio, United States.
2. Her zodiac/star sign is Aries
If you are versed about what does star sign/zodiac (on some countries), then you might want to know that Nancy’s star sign was Aries, which falls from people who are born between March 21-April 19.
3. She was on reality show ‘Finding MOMOLAND’
A 2016 reality show that aims to form the next big hit girl group from Dublekick, Nancy, among with the other MOMOLAND members, was a part of the seven winning members of the show. The other six were Hyebin, Yeonwoo, Jane, Nayun, JooE, and Ahin. MOMOLAND later on added two members, Daisy (Finding Momoland eliminated contestant) on March 28, 2017 and Kim Taeha (Produce 101 eliminated contestant) on April 10, 2017, forming the now 9-member girl group.
4. She was also part of SBS Inkigayo’s Sunny Girls image via allkpop.com
A project girl group made by the popular music show for its ‘Music Crush’ project in 2016, Sunny Girls is comprised of a really impressive, visual-oriented lineup: G-Friend‘s Eunha, Cosmic Girls‘ Cheng Xiao, Oh My Girl‘s YooA, Gugudan‘s Nayoung, and of course, Momoland‘s Nancy.
5. She likes musicals, to the point that she can make it amazing
While we know that this girl loves musicals, what we didn’t know is that she can make one amazing. This clip from ‘Finding MOMOLAND’ shows Nancy’s amazing voice as well as her smooth-sweet English accent. It’s magical, and we will just let you watch it so that you’ll appreciate.
6. She looks like Filipina celebrity Liza Soberano
We already detailed this on our very first article about Nancy. However, for those who don’t Know Liza, she is one of the kinda popular actress in Asia, and having Nancy resembling her sure did make buzz among social media. As shown on the video linked from the article, Nancy was amazed by the fact that she has a celebrity look-a-like. She even didn’t believed it at first, and uttered “She looks like Ariana Grande” instead. READ: LOOK: Korea’s Nancy McDonie wowed by actress Liza Soberano’s beauty
7. She has an older sister
Doing a Google search won’t reveal much about Nancy aside from MOMOLAND’s Wikipedia page and some other articles made about her. However, a deep search led us to this information. Brenda Lee McDonie (photo via Instagram) Nancy has an older sister named Brenda Lee McDonie (@brendamcdonie). And while we might want to spare her from the ‘celebrity spotlight’, sure, we’ll leave her publicly accessible Instagram in case you want to see.
8. She was in MC GREE’s ‘Dangerous’ Music Video
In this song from 2016, MC GREE and Nancy are a young couple. Check out how the MV all came together, as well as how he had to ride around on his bicycle with a mannequin instead of Nancy. How sweet, and jealousy-incarnating at the same time.
9. She did a CF for ’23 Years Old’ with Go Gyung-po
While we all know that Nancy and MOMOLAND are now getting so much CF offers and features after their Bboom Bboom success, these set of commercials are one of the firsts for Nancy and sure, they’re cute and lovely! Great talent choice for premium homecare brand ’23 Years Old’.
10. She is a part of a web drama titled ‘Some Light’
A 2017 web drama from Naver TV, ‘Some Light’ is a music/romantic-sensation themed web drama that pertains to a signal in which might be a sign of destiny. This drama is starring Nancy as well as Empire Kids Ha Min-Woo.
11. She speaks Korean better than English
Well, we didn’t expect this. Nancy’s English is actually fluent and as you can see on this compilation video above, she speaks English with a sweet voice and accent you’ll surely fall in love with. However, Nancy revealed in a variety show that she speaks Korean better than English. Consider the fact that she lived on Korean for some time, and how easy to learn Korean language as a native, she might be much more comfortable with it. Yes, we do know that English are struggle for many idols.
12. Her nicknames are Jonancy (조낸시) and Aenan (애낸)
Who would thought that Nancy would be called with these names?
13. She’s a social media sweetheart 1/2
We’re seeing a lot of fan pages and photos posted by fans of Nancy, and hell yeah, most of them are shared thousands of times, mostly including captions praising Nancy’s baby-face and beauty. Indeed a rising social media sweetheart!
14. She trained for 6 years prior to debuting
Many of you didn’t know this, but Nancy is the youngest (maknae) member with the most training experience among MOMOLAND.
15. She loves to watch beauty shows, movies, and sing to Disney OSTs
As a social media / K-Pop rising princess, Nancy also shares common hobbies with most of us, like watching beauty shows (probably to maintain her beauty) as well as movies and of course, to sing on Disney movies soundtracks which we admittedly had done at least once in our lives.
16. She and SEVENTEEN’s Vernon are close childhood friends
image via Dispatch It was later on revealed that SEVENTEEN’s Vernon and Nancy met and worked together before their debut. The two worked as kids model since they were young. On the photo above, Vernon and Nancy modeled in some fashion brand pictorials as a couple. Cute, right?
17. Her motto is “If you get the chance, don’t miss out on it”
Image credits to source Truly a motto that applies to her, we guess. Now she has the chance to prove to the world her worth.
18. She got the new definition of beauty
While we all know that some K-Pop idols do hold most of the beauty titles and recognition in the industry, the response to Nancy’s images proliferating on social media and her popularity among the K-Pop world is giving another definition to the epitome of beauty.
Credit to the owners of the images
Source: koreagram.net
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