Ariana Grande has had enough of the intrusive and derogatory comments about her weight piling up on social networks in recent weeks. “No one has the right to say anything about your image,” the star of Wicked while choking back tears during an interview that went viral.
“She’s much too thin”, “she doesn’t look healthy”, “she’s only skin and bones”… Remarks like this have abounded on social networks since Ariana Grande crowds the various red carpets to present the film adaptation of the musical phenomenon Wicked. And she heard them all.
“It’s very worrying how comfortable we are when it comes to putting someone else down,” the singer said in an interview with French journalist Sally.
“I do this public job, so I feel like I’ve been a specimen in a Petri dish since I was 16 or 17 years old. It’s difficult to protect yourself from this noise. It’s something that makes you uncomfortable, no matter what scale you experience it, even when you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s grandmother says, “Oh, my God, you look skinnier, what happened?” or: “You gained weight, what happened?” This is not normal, even if it is just one person. In my case, unfortunately, it is on a very large scale,” confides the interpreter of Glinda in Wicked.
Ariana Grande, however, managed to distance herself from these comments spilled in public space over the years thanks to those close to her.
“I am very lucky to have the support of those around me and to be able to trust that I am pretty. I have a job to do, I have a life, I have friends to love. I have so much love. So I just don’t have time or space in my life for these comments,” she confides.
