Weekly Playboy
She began to be known as a "poverty [poor] idol" because of her poor background, and after featuring on the cover of the "Weekly Playboy" magazine, she released her first photobook, "Hare Tokidoki Namida" (lit. "Fair, then Occasional Tears") in July 2009. She had appeared in a total of 445 television programs and two television commercials by May 2011.