“I had never been hangrier in my life than when I was at that holistic health retreat in Koh Samui,” January So deadpans. Her husband Aaron Chin, sat by her side and nursing his coffee, can’t help but burst into laughter at her blunt declaration. “When Aaron asked if I wanted to try a ‘cleansing’ trip to ‘detox’ in Thailand, a week-long fasting retreat while at a holiday resort surrounded by hawker stalls wasn’t what I had in mind at all.”
The process, So tells Tatler, was nothing short of harrowing. For the first half of the week at the retreat, not only was she told that they couldn’t eat, but they had to do the occasional, but thorough, cleansing of the colon via an enema.
Chin winces at the memory, admitting even he found it extreme. “You had to use a bucket to relieve yourself after the detox,” he explains, “because whatever excrement you expel will then be examined by medical
