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Selena Gomez Started Therapy After Bikini Fat Shaming

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Selena Gomez recently put on a little weight, and because she’s a celebrity, that’s something people noticed. I think she looks great (though to be honest, I’ve never noticed her body in any sense since she looks like a 12-year-old to me so I just can’t), but apparently the backlash she received after posting photos of her new body in a bathing suit a few months back really got to her, and she’s in therapy to help her self-esteem.

From US Weekly (via the Daily Mail):

‘I’ve been working in therapy,’ the ex-girlfriend of Justin Bieber confessed. ‘I’d land at the airport and people would yell out, “You’re fat!” It was awful.’

‘I was really bummed when I found out all that stuff was going on,’ the Spring Breakers actress said, noting she was in Mexico at the time.

‘And that’s when I was like, “I’m so tired of feeling like I’m being pulled down by something.”‘

‘Each year, I’m becoming more who I am. I have a little more self-awareness. I feel confident and free. I’m not going to hide in my room and be depressed,’ Gomez said.

Good for her. She’s in no way fat or even overweight (and even if she was, that still doesn’t give anyone the right to put her down over it. But look, fat shaming aside, Selena has been through far worse, like a lupus diagnosis which kept her out of the spotlight for a few years while she sought chemotherapy treatment.

From Billboard:

“I was diagnosed with lupus, and I’ve been through chemotherapy. That’s what my break was really about. I could’ve had a stroke,” Gomez says of her time spent out of the spotlight, which gossip-mongers took as fodder for addiction rumors. “I wanted so badly to say, ‘You guys have no idea. I’m in chemotherapy. You’re assholes.’ I locked myself away until I was confident and comfortable again.”

However, she’s turning a negative into a positive:

“I’m so f—ing nice to everybody, and everyone is so vile to me. I’ve been working since I was 7. I’ve been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17. It’s so disappointing that I’ve become a tabloid story,” Gomez says. But it helped propel her to new places for Revival: “The hate motivated me.”

Oh, Selena. Fame is cruel – you trade your privacy, dignity, and right to live your life in peace for tons of money and adoration from your fans. It’s not something I’d want, that’s for sure.

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  • Shut up you fat bitch and get your ass to the gym … is what you shouldn’t say to people. I remember when her appearance started to change and I was like “somethings got to be going on” because most people, especially celebs, don’t puff up that quickly without something serious going on behind the scenes so good on her for keeping positive and getting through chemo.

  • She looks gross since she got fat. Sorry girls. She is fat. ANd her shortness does not help at all. Short and fat – never a good combination.

  • She is just growing up and filling out I think it looks good on her. The need for therapy coz jealous D-Bag nobodies call you fat is a bit of a concern tho she obviously has No self worth WTF Gomez time for your brain and heart to catch up to you maturing body.