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Ariana Grande recently revealed about the intense public scrutiny surrounding her appearance.
In the wrist an interview with her Wicked co-star Cynthia ErivoThe 31-year-old actress has highlighted the damaging impact of unsolicited comments about her body, expressing concern about society’s growing comfort in criticizing how others look.
“I’ve been a specimen in a petri dish since I was 17, so I’ve heard it all,” Grande said. “I heard ‘what’s wrong’ with me, and then you fix it, and then it’s wrong for different reasons.”
“I think there’s a comfort in today’s society that we shouldn’t even comment on other people’s looks, looks…what they think is going on ‘behind the scenes’ or their health or how they present themselves,” she explained. “I think that’s dangerous. for both parties involved.”
Her remarks reflect a larger theme she has often addressed in her career – combating body shaming and promoting self-acceptance.
In April 2023, the pop star accepted TikTok to address recent comments about her body in an intimate three-minute video that gave fans an honest insight into her struggles with health and well-being.
“I don’t do this often. I don’t like it. I’m not good at it,” she began the video. “But I just wanted to address your concern about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and get so much attention.”
“There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful,” she said in the video. “And personally, for me, the body you compared my current body to was the most unhealthy version of my body.”
Grande went on to explain that while people now consider her “healthy,” she was actually at her lowest point.
“I was taking a lot of anti-depressants and I was taking them and eating badly and that was at the lowest point of my life,” she said. “But it wasn’t really my health.”
This was not the only time the “God is a Woman” singer addressed the culture of body shaming. Back in 2015, she responded to a comment comparing her appearance to that of another actress.
“We live in a day and time where people make it IMPOSSIBLE for women, men, and anyone to embrace themselves exactly as they are,” she wrote, urging fans to ditch the comparisons and focus on self-love.