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Ariana Grande Shares ‘Loving Reminder’ to Not Comment on Her Appearance
Ariana Grande is still not here for anyone critiquing the way she looks.
“Resharing this from last year as a loving reminder to all,” Grande, 32, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, November 29, sharing a clip from her interview on Oui Oui Baguette. “I always love and appreciate our talks so much @sally!!”
Grande and her Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo sat down with French journalist Sally on their movie press tour in 2024, during which the pop star opened up about fans’ comments on her body and more.
“I’ve been doing this in front of the public really since I was 16 or 17, you know, so I have heard it all,” Grande said during the conversation. “I’ve heard every version of what’s wrong with me, and then you fix it, and it’s wrong for different reasons. That’s everything from … your appearance [when] you’re young and hearing all these kinds of things.”
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She added, “It’s hard to protect yourself from that noise, and I think it’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on — even if you’re going to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s granny says, ‘Oh my gosh, you look skinnier, what happened?’”
Grande further acknowledged that those types of comments are “uncomfortable and horrible,” regardless of the scale.
“I think in today’s society, there’s a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all, commenting on others’ looks, appearance [and] what they think is going on behind the scenes or health,” she stressed. “From what you’re wearing to your body to your face to your everything, there’s a comfortability people have in commenting on that that I think is really dangerous — for all parties involved.”
Grande explained that she has tried to tune out the noise, reminding herself that she’s “beautiful.”
“And so are you and you,” she told Sally and Erivo, 38. “But, I do know what that noise feels like. It’s been a resident in my life since I was 17, and I just don’t invite it in anymore. It’s not welcome. I have work to do, I have a life to live, I have friends to love on [and] so much love — and it’s not invited. So, I don’t leave space for it anymore.”
Grande has long been candid about judgment over her looks — and past experience with cosmetic enhancements.
“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not,” she told Vogue in September 2023, revealing that she stopped getting Botox and lip fillers years earlier in 2018. “When you’re 17, you don’t really know that yet. Over the years, I used makeup as a disguise or something to hide behind with more and more hair and more thicker eyeliner.”
She added, “I still do have love for it and appreciation for it. But I think as I get older, I don’t love that being the intention behind it anymore. I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines. I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more and I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing.”
Grande later told Entertainment Tonight in January that she was “still clean” from injectables, finding it so important to be transparent because she’s a beauty founder. Grande launched REM Beauty in 2021.
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