“Today I realized that I will never be the same again.” Selena Gomez shares before/after photos of her body.

Selena Gomez, a victim of body shaming after her weight gain, wants to say she’s fine, no offense to her detractors. Indeed, as an insult to those who debate her figure and compare the evolution of her looks over the years on social media, the founder of cosmetics brand Rare Beauty shared her own feelings on the matter. She first published her photo at the age of 20, where she appeared in a bikini near the pool in Miami. “Today I realized I will never look like this again,” she wrote in the caption of her “story” published this Monday, January 22, before adding a second photo of herself in a swimsuit, taken in Mexico in 2023. “I’m not perfect, but I’m proud to be who I am… Sometimes I forget that it’s okay to be me,” she confided to her 429 million subscribers.

“I was ashamed of being fat”

If the heroine of the series Only kills in the building embraces herself for who she is and shows confidence today, she realized that wasn’t always the case. In an episode of the documentary Dear… Aired on Apple+TV in March 2023, the actress admitted that she hid from her community how she really felt about her physical abuse. “My weight was constantly fluctuating because I was taking certain medications. And it is obvious that people took advantage of the opportunity,” he said. “It’s like they couldn’t wait to find something to take me down. I was ashamed of being overweight because of lupus.” And confess. “I lied. I used to enter the Internet, post my picture and say: “I don’t care what you say anyway.” In fact, the former Disney star revealed that she sometimes “broke tears,” reminding herself that “nobody deserves to hear these things.”

“I said it didn’t bother me because I didn’t want it to bother other people who are going through the same thing, who are ashamed of who they look like, who they are,” she continued, who is very much into the business. access to mental health care. And to finish with final confidence. “I just think it’s so unfair. I don’t think anyone deserves to feel depressed.”