- Selena Gomez recently reflected on her past fashion choices in a video for Vogue.
- She opened up about body image and how weight fluctuation affects her style.
- “I fluctuate a lot with my weight,” she said, adding, “I don’t have to be that 19-year-old body shape anymore.”
Selena Gomez recently opened up about her weight and body image in a video for Vogue.
The 28-year-old “Vulnerable” singer was tasked with breaking down 15 of her past looks, from 2007’s Disney Channel days to 2021’s “De Una Vez” music video.
When faced with a photo from the 2015 Met Gala, Gomez admitted she was struggling with feeling confident at the time.
“I fluctuate a lot with my weight. And I remember this night specifically, I didn’t feel good about my body,” she said. “So what was really amazing was that I actually got a chance to work on the dress that fit my body.”
“I think that we came together and built something really beautiful and something that fit me really well,” she continued. “That was one of the moments where I was like, ‘I don’t have to be that 19-year-old body shape anymore, because I’m not.'”
Gomez made a similar comment about her look at the 2019 premiere of “The Dead Don’t Die” in New York City.
“This was also a moment in my life where I had fluctuated in weight,” she said. “I’m very honest with the people on my team, so I didn’t want to wear anything tight. And then I tried this dress on and I felt so beautiful.”
“It definitely highlighted this area a lot,” she added, gesturing to her chest. “I felt like a Barbie doll.”
Gomez has lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, for which she’s needed chemotherapy treatments and medication. It also caused her to undergo an emergency kidney transplant in 2017.
Gomez has said she began to deal with “body image stuff” when she began having health issues.
“It’s the medication I have to take for the rest of my life – it depends on even the month, to be honest,” she said of her weight fluctuation in 2019. “So for me, I really noticed when people started attacking me for that. And in reality, that’s just my truth. I fluctuate. It depends what’s happening in my life.”
She also said that constant commentary about her weight “got to me big time” and “really messed me up for a bit.”
Source: news.yahoo.com
