Ariana Grande Appeared To Slam The Long-Running Scrutiny Of Her Weight On Charli XCX’s New “Brat” Remix Album

“I don’t do this often, I don’t like it, I’m not good at it,” she said. “I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and to be paid such close attention to.”
“I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my ‘healthy,’” she said. “But that in fact wasn’t my healthy.”
Taking part in Vanity Fair’s Lie Detector Test last month, Ariana’s Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo asked if the Victorious actor has had any work done on her face or whether she’s gotten a nose job or a boob job. Ariana firmly replied, “No,” to each of Cynthia’s questions, and the lie detector technician confirmed that she was being truthful.
“It’s a knife when the mean fans hate the nice fans / When somebody says, ‘Ari, I think you’ve totally changed,’” she sings. “(It’s a knife) When somebody says they like the old me and not the new me / And I’m like, ‘Who the fuck is she?’”
In recent months, Ariana has faced criticism from some fans over her so-called new appearance and style — namely her voice, which she’s defended numerous times.