The post arrived one year after the 'Only Murders in the Building' actress got body-shamed following her appearance at the 2023 Golden Globes.
- Jan 24, 2024
AceShowbiz - Selena Gomez wants the world to know that she is not ashamed of her body. When inviting fans to embrace self-love, the "Only Murders in the Building" star shared a picture of herself showing off her curves in a bikini.
Making use of Instagram Story on Monday, January 22, the 31-year-old singer first posted a photo of herself in her early 20s that showed her wearing a bikini next to a pool. She captioned it, "Today, I realized I will never look like this again."
Selena followed that up with another more contemporary picture of her in a swimsuit stepping out of the ocean and onto a yacht back in January 2023. "I'm not perfect but I am proud to be who I am," she penned in the accompanying message. "Sometimes, I forget it's OK to be me."
The post arrived one year after Selena got body-shamed following her appearance at the 2023 Golden Globes. At the time, she was nominated for Best Television Actress - Musical/Comedy Series for "Only Murders in the Building", which she lost to Quinta Brunson on "Abbott Elementary".
The "Wolves" songstress, however, refused to stay silent amid the trolling. Firing back at critics, she argued in an Instagram Live video while talking to her sister Gracie Elliott Teefey, "I'm a little bit big right now because I enjoyed myself during the holidays."
Gracie appeared to agree when Selena turned to her sibling and asked, "Right?" The actress, who is currently dating Benny Blanco, went on laughing, "But we don't care."
Selena deleted social media apps from her phone in 2019 after nasty comments left her feeling depressed. She also told Rolling Stone magazine she had thought about taking her life after battling psychosis, which led to her being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
"I thought the world would be better if I wasn't there. I'm going to be very open with everybody about this - I've been to four treatment centres," she said. "I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad."
