“I’m not perfect, but I’m proud to be who I am.”
Like most people in this world, Selena Gomez has seen her body change and her weight fluctuate over the years, which she reflected in an Instagram post .
On January 22, the Only Murders in the Building star posted a couple of photos to her IG Stories. The first was an old photo of Gomez in a zebra-print string bikini: “Today I realized I will never look like this again,” she wrote over the image. In the second, more recent image, Gomez climbs the ladder of a boat after swimming. She is wearing a black and white swimsuit and looks at the camera over her shoulder. The text overlaid on this photo reads: “I’m not perfect, but I’m proud to be who I am. Sometimes I forget that it’s okay to be me.”
While the way Gomez’s body has fluctuated over the years is incredibly normal, the amount of body-shaming she receives online is definitely not. For example, when photos of Gomez in a black and white swimsuit appeared on the Internet a year ago of her minding her own business while on vacation, body-shamers went crazy in the comments and it was, Frankly, horrible. So awful that she felt the need to address it, as she has done on several occasions.
In a December 2022 interview with Glamor, Selena Gomez said: “For as long as I can remember, I’ve always felt like I had to be perfect or look a certain way. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to be myself: that what “What made me unique was also what made me beautiful.”
