Selena Gomez is having her side known. She responded to a TikTok video claiming that her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber affected her weight. The clip, which was posted on November 29, showed a collage of the singer’s throwback photos and was labeled, “The reason why Selena is always skinny when she dates Justin.”
The creator also claimed that Justin, who married Hailey Bieber in 2018, “rathers models.” The creator also pitied Selena and referred to her as “My poor baby.”
Selena reacted to the post on December 11 by commenting with a sad emoji face. Many of her fans interpreted it as her way of agreeing with the creator’s claim while others believed it was to show her disappointment after her weight was criticized online. Fans have different reactions with one commenting, “Her weight shouldn’t even be a subject of conversation.”
Selena and Justin had an on-and-off relationship from 2010 to 2018. She talked about their break up in her documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me. She called their separation as “the best thing that ever happened to me.”
In 2015, the 30-year-old singer was diagnosed with lupus and underwent a kidney transplant in 2017. She shared how her health problems affected her weight as well as the criticisms she received from people.
In an episode of Giving Back Generation in 2019, she said, “I have lupus and deal with kidney issues and high blood pressure, so I deal with a lot of health issues. And for me, that’s when I really started noticing the body image stuff.”
The actress continued, “It’s a combination of all of it. It’s the medication that I have to take for the rest of my life. It depends on even the month, to be honest. So, for me, I really noticed when people started attacking me for that. And in reality, that’s just my truth. I fluctuate. It depends what’s happening in my life….And that got to me big time, you know? I think for me, that really messed me up for a bit.”
Selena also shut down body shamers in a video she shared on TikTok earlier this year. The video featured “Rack City” by Tyga. She was featured mouthing the lyrics, “I’m a muthaf–kin’ star.”
She shared, “So I be trying to stay skinny, but I went to Jack in the Box and I got four tacos, three egg rolls, onion rings and a spicy chicken sandwich,” she said in April. “But honestly, I don’t care about my weight because people bitch about it anyway: ‘You’re too small.’ ‘You’re too big.’ ‘That doesn’t fit.’ ‘Meh meh meh meh.'”
She added, “Bitch, I am perfect the way I am. Moral of the story? Bye.”
