7 celebrities who have clapped back at body shamers

Ariana Grande addressed fans' concerns over her thinness in a TikTok post on Tuesday.

She said: "People should be gentler and less comfortable" with commenting on other people's bodies.

Grande told her followers that being healthy and beautiful can look different for different people.

"I know personally for me, the body that you've been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body," she said.

She told her followers she was on a lot of antidepressants as well as drinking and eating poorly while at the lowest points of her life. This was when fans thought she looked "healthy," she said.

She also told fans that shouldn't have to explain herself, and that you never know what someone is going through.

"I think you're beautiful no matter what you're going through, no matter what weight, no matter how you like to do your make up these days, no matter what cosmetic procedures you've had, or not," she said.

In March 2019, a reporter referred to Demi Lovato's "fuller figure" in a headline. The "Sorry not Sorry" singer responded on her Instagram story: "I am more than my weight."

Lovato has always been candid about her struggles with substance and alcohol abuse, as well as eating disorders. In an interview with Paper in 2021, she said: "Right after I got out of rehab in 2018, I saw an article somewhere that said I was morbidly obese. That is the most triggering thing that you could possibly write about somebody with an eating disorder."

Lizzo is well known for her body positivity and hasn't shied away from hitting back at critics.

At a concert in Toronto, Canada last October, the "About Damn Time" singer said: "I feel like everybody in America got my motherfucking name in they motherfucking mouth for no motherfucking reason. I'm minding my fat, Black, beautiful business."

Her comments came after Ye, the wrapper formerly known as Kanye West, said in a Fox News interview last year: "When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots … on Instagram, they attack her for losing weight, because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal, when it's actually unhealthy."

When one Instagram user commented on a bikini picture of Kourtney Kardashian assuming she was pregnant, the eldest Kardashian sister replied: "This is me when I have a few extra pounds on, and I actually love it.

"I have given birth three amazing times and this is the shape of my body."

When the Daily Mail posted topless photos of the actor Jonah Hill surfing, he responded by saying this was part of a pattern of the media trying to body shame him.

In a now-deleted Instagram post, Hill wrote: "I don't think I ever took my shirt off in a pool until I was in my mid-30s even in front of family and friends. Probably would have happened sooner if my childhood insecurities weren't exacerbated by years of public mockery about my body by press and interviewers."

Billie Eilish is another young woman who faced the wrath of the internet after pictures of her in a tank top and shorts circulated in 2020, with people commenting that she's "got fat."

In response, she shared a YouTube video that encourages viewers to normalize "real bodies" and told Vanity Fair: "I'm like, 'Nope, this is just how I look! You've just never seen it before!'"

Eilish had previously told Dazed that she started wearing loose fitting because she felt insecure and hated her body.

The "Girls" writer and actor Lena Dunham faced negative comments in October 2021 — which she later described as "gnarly shit" — on an Instagram post celebrating her marriage to her new husband.

In response, Dunham said an Instagram caption: "When will we learn to stop equating thinness with health/happiness?"

Dunham told her audience that when she was thinner, she was struggling with addiction and illness.