Ariana Grande has continued to raise eyebrows with her shrinking frame following the release of her new music video, ‘Petal’.
The singer, 33, looks incredibly gaunt in the video, which was directed by Christian Breslauer.
In the bizarre clip, Grande plays the character of Pepper, an aspiring starlet who attends multiple auditions in a bid to become famous.
A group of studio bigwigs brand her ‘unmarketable’, ‘unattractive’, and ‘inauthentic,’ before accusing her of having a personality disorder.
‘We miss the old you,’ one tells her. ‘Maybe you could go out and find her and come back and give it another shot?’
Grande leaves, only to return moments later with a chainsaw, which she uses to violently dismember the men.
Ariana Grande has continued to raise eyebrows with her shrinking frame following the release of her new music video, ‘Petal’
The singer, 33, looks incredibly gaunt in the video, which was directed by Christian Breslauer
‘I am actually so over us normalizing this and acting like this is okay,’ wrote one fan
Now drenched in blood, she returns to the waiting room, only to receive a round of rapturous applause from the other female auditionees.
Despite the clever social commentary in the video, many fans were more distracted by Grande’s weight than anything else.
‘This is like looking at Karen Carpenter and everyone was like [shrug],’ wrote one fan.
‘I am actually so over us normalizing this and acting like this is okay,’ wrote a second.
‘Shocking and heartbreaking,’ wrote a third, while a fourth added, ‘For the love of God, please eat something.’
Another wrote, ‘Her bones are literally popping out.’
Despite the concerned comments, other fans defended the singer and said that it was inappropriate to comment on her physical appearance.
‘If y’all actually cared are her you wouldn’t be publicly making comments about her body,’ argued one.
Fans were shocked by the star’s appearance, with many comparing her to the late singer Karen Carpenter
Grande murders a group of businessmen with a chainsaw in the disturbing video
‘The irony of all the girls over 200 pounds saying she’s “unhealthy”. You think being 200 pounds is healthy? Good lord, the jealousy is screaming from you guys!’ wrote another.
Daily Mail has reached out to Grande’s management for comment.
Grande released her eighth studio album, Petal, on Friday.
The project was preceded be the lead single ‘Hate That I Made You Love Me’, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The singer has addressed her weight multiples times over the years and has insisted that she’s healthy, despite the continued speculation around her shrinking frame.
‘There’s a comfortability that people have commenting on that that I think is really dangerous,’ she told YouTuber Sally in a 2024 interview.
‘I’ve been kind of doing this in front of the public and kind of been a specimen in a petri dish really since I was 16 or 17, so I have heard it all,’ she continued.
‘I’ve heard every version of it — of what’s wrong with me. And then you fix it, and then it’s wrong for different reasons. But that’s everything from — even just the simplest thing — your appearance, you know?’
She added, ‘I think in today’s society, there is a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all — commenting on others’ looks, appearance, what they think is going on behind the scenes or health or how they present themselves.’
Grande is pictured in 2018, which she claims was an ‘unhealthy’ time for her
The Wicked star is pictured in 2020 (left) and in her Petal music video (right)
In a 2023 TikTok, Grande directly addressed concerns about her weight and explained that older photos of herself, where she wasn’t as thin, were actually taken during an unhealthy period in her life.
‘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, but that in fact wasn’t my healthy,’ she explained.
‘I know I shouldn’t have to explain that, but I do feel like having an openness and some sort of vulnerability here will [mean] something good might come from it. Healthy can look different.’
Last December, conservative commentator Megyn Kelly shockingly accused Grande of being ‘anorexic’.
‘Take a look at Ariana Grande right now, of the music industry and now also as an actress starring in Wicked. Let’s check in on how Ariana, who was raised on television, on Nickelodeon… is doing,’ Kelly began.
‘She is very clearly anorexic. If she’s 90 pounds, it’s a lot. She looks like you could snap her in two with your fingers.’
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