On Tuesday, Ariana Grande took to TikTok to share a video addressing the hurtful body-shaming comments she received following the circulation of paparazzi photos that garnered significant attention.
In the heartfelt three-minute clip, the renowned singer urged her fans to practice mindfulness when discussing other people’s bodies. She bravely revealed that the body type fans were comparing her to now was during a time when she was struggling the most.
“The body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body. I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly,” she said. “[I was] at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy, but that in fact wasn’t my healthy.”
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She added, “I know I shouldn’t have to explain that. But I do feel like maybe having an openness and some sort of vulnerability here, good might come from it.”
“There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don’t like, that I think we should help each other work towards,” she said. “We should aim toward being safer, and keeping each other safer.” healthy can look different”
“You never know what someone is going through,” Grande said. “So even if you are coming from a loving place and a caring place, that person probably is working on it or has a support system that they are working on it with. Be gentle with each other and with yourselves.”
