Ariana Grande addresses comments about her weight

"I just wanted to address your concerns about my body."  Ariana Grande took to TikTok to address ongoing comments about her weight …

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00:00I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little bit about

00:04what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and to be paid such close attention to.

00:12I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people's bodies,

00:16no matter what. If you think you're saying something good or well-intentioned,

00:20whatever it is, healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, not sexy, I don't...

00:27we just shouldn't. There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see

00:33that you don't like that I think we should help each other work towards.

00:37But I just also wanted to say, one, there are many different kinds of beautiful.

00:44There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful. I know personally for me,

00:49the body that you've been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body.

00:56I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly.

01:03And at the lowest point of my life, when I looked the way you consider my healthy,

01:10but that in fact wasn't my healthy. And I know I shouldn't have to explain that,

01:13but I do feel like maybe having an openness and some sort of vulnerability here will be

01:18something my good might come from it. I don't know. That's the first thing.

01:22Healthy can look different. The second thing is you never know what someone is going through.

01:27So even if you are coming from a loving place and a caring place, that person probably is working

01:33on it or has a support system that they are working on it with. And the third one's unrelated.

01:38I guess I just wanted to extend some love your way and tell you that you're beautiful,

01:43no matter what phase you're in, have a very beautiful day. And I'm sending you a lot of love.