Ariana Grande is once again speaking out against body shaming, resurfacing an old interview where she addressed the issue head-on.
On Friday (November 29), the Wicked: For Good star reposted her December 2024 sit-down with co-star Cynthia Erivo and French journalist Sally. In the conversation, Grande opened up about how hurtful the “harmful” commentary about her appearance has been.
“I’ve been doing this in front of the public and been a specimen in a Petri dish really since I was 16 or 17. I have heard it all. I’ve heard every version of it,” Grande said. “You’re young and you’re hearing all kinds of things.”
“It’s hard to protect yourself from that noise,” she went on. “It’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on, even if you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s granny says, ‘Oh my God, you look skinnier, what happened?’ or ‘You look heavier, what happened?'”
She continued: “In today’s society, there is a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all—commenting on others’ looks, appearance, what they think is going on behind the scenes, or health or how they present themselves … that I think is really dangerous.”
Grande also mentioned that she’s “really lucky” to have a solid “support system,” and to know that she’s “beautiful.”
“Resharing this from last year as a loving reminder to all,” Grande wrote over the clip on her Instagram Story.
Earlier in 2024, Grande shared a TikTok addressing people who compared her current size to how she looked when she was younger, noting that she wasn’t actually “healthy” during that time.
“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,” she said in the TikTok below.
