Sara Bareilles Gets Real About Combatting Body Image Struggles While Choosing Her Tony Awards Outfit

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Almost time! Sara Bareilles is gearing up for the 76th annual Tony Awards by working to ignore her past body image struggles before hitting the red carpet.“I am thinking a lot about how I’m preparing for these events, now these two events mean a lot to me, obviously,” the “Love Song” songstress, 43, said in a Saturday, June 10, video via her Instagram Story, referring to the awards ceremony and the movie premiere of her Waitress musical one day later. “And traditionally, when I’m getting ready for a big event, I go on a real bender of body-shaming and hating and trying to lose weight and get small and hit the gym super hard because there’s some kind of sense in myself that if I don’t present a certain way that I’m not allowed to participate.”Bareilles — who is up for an acting Tony during Sunday’s show — noted that she is “really trying to rewire” her brain to fix that perspective.“This is old stories and I don’t ascribe to them anymore.

I mean, I have to fight really hard not to ascribe,” she added on Saturday. “Like, I can just have the body that I have and go have a f—king blast.”Bareilles, who got engaged to longtime partner Joe Tippett in January, earned a Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical nomination for her role of Baker’s Wife in the Into the Woods revival.

The Girls5eva star is competing against Annaleigh Ashford, Victoria Clark, Lorna Courtney and Micaela Diamond.“I can’t tell you how shocking and delightful it is to be amongst all of [my fellow honorees], and to be a Tony nominee for performance means the world,” she gushed to The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “It’s just beyond.”Bareilles’ Broadway career began in 2015 when she penned the music and lyrics for Waitress,