Ariana Grande addresses 'concerns' about her body: 'We can look different'

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Ariana Grande shared a difficult message with her millions of social media followers Tuesday. The 29-year-old "Dangerous Woman" singer hopped on TikTok for a rare video addressing "concerns" about her body. "I don’t do this often," she said. "I’m not good at it and I don’t like it." She added, "I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little about what it means to be a person with a body, and to be seen and be paid such close attention to." Grande has largely stayed out of the spotlight while filming a two-part adaptation of the musical "Wicked" with Cynthia Erivo, which is slated for a Christmas Day 2024 release. @arianagrande♡ ♬ original sound - arianagrande  "I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on peoples bodies, no matter what.

If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is — healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, not sexy — we just shouldn’t," she said. "We should really work towards not doing that as much.  "There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see, that you don’t like… that I think we should help each other work towards just… being safer and keeping each other safer." The former Disney star made a list of important reminders for her fans when it came to discussing beauty standards. "There are many different kinds of beautiful.There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful," she said. "I know, personally for me, the body that you've been comparing my current body to, was the unhealthiest version of my body.  "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.