In today's episode of ‘we can't believe another female celebrity has been forced to speak out about the public's commentary on their body', we're turning to Ariana Grande and her recent TikTok video.
In the candid clip, the Thank U, Next singer spoke openly about the comments fans have been making about her body, referencing recent incidents as well as noting that she has had to endure such scrutiny over the entire course of her career. She captioned the video,“You have talked a lot about it [my body] over the past decade or longer so I’d like to join in this time. :)”
During the three-minute video, the popstar urges people to stop commenting on people's bodies generally and revealed that behind the scenes, what some fans consider her “healthiest” body was far from it.
“I know personally for me, the body that you have been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” she said. “I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy but that in fact wasn’t my healthy. And I know I shouldn’t have to explain that but I thought that maybe having an openness and some kind of vulnerability here would be—that something good might come from it, I don’t know. But that’s the first thing: healthy can look different.”
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“The second thing is you never know what someone is going through,” she continued. “So even if you are coming from a loving place and a caring place, that person is probably working on it or has a support system that they are working on it with, and you never know.”
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Her emotive clip has already received over 130,000 comments from fans at the time of writing. “This made me cry omg, we love you so much and you're gorgeous,” wrote one, another adding: “We need more people who approach the world like Ariana Grande, thank you so much for this.”
Many also praised her delivery, commenting that it was a “refreshing”, “calm” and “open” approach to the issue, one adding that they felt the manner of her video would help to “open up the conversation” around the way we discuss women's bodies and help “further the cause”.
Ariana has been shooting Universal's adaption of award-winning musical Wicked, starring alongside Cynthia Erivo, with the singer playing Glinda The Good Witch, and so has been a little quieter on social media over the past few months. However, her return to the platform to make the above video makes it all the more impactful, and we hope her words will go some way to educating those guilty of body shaming.
“As a woman, you're more likely to be far more cruel to yourself than you ever are about other people.”
