Stars Talk About Body-Shaming: Lili Reinhart, Billie Eilish, More

Speaking out. Lili Reinhart, Camila Cabello, Lizzo and more stars have opened up about being body-shamed online throughout their time in the public eye.

Charlie Puth, for one, shared a “quick reminder” via Twitter in March 2021 “that it’s not cool to body-shame anyone” after shirtless photos of him surfaced online. “Not entirely sure what the purpose of it is,” the musician added. “Sorry I don’t have an eight pack like damn.”

Similarly, Billie Eilish explained that she likes to wear baggy and oversized clothing so haters can’t have anything to say about her body. “I never want the world to know everything about me,” the songstress explained in a May 2019 Calvin Klein ad. “I mean, that’s why I wear big, baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath, you know? Nobody can be like, ‘Oh, she’s slim-thick, she’s not slim-thick, she’s got a flat [butt], she’s got a fat [butt].’ No one can say any of that, because they don’t know.”

During her Where Do We Go World Tour, Billie played a video interlude for fans titled “NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.” Within the nearly four-minute clip, which has since been released on YouTube, the “Bad Guy” musician opened up about the ongoing conversations surrounding her body and fashion choices.

“Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me,” Billie said in the short clip. “But I feel you watching always and nothing I do goes unseen. So while I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sigh of relief, if I lived by them I’d never be able to move.”

Riverdale star Lili has also used her platform to get candid about body positivity. The actress told the Los Angeles Times in August 2020 that she struggles with not having “the CW girl body — tiny waist, nice-shaped legs, skinny, small, tiny.”

“I had to do a bra and underwear scene in this last season [of Riverdale] and I felt really insecure about it,” Lili told the newspaper at the time. “I really, really didn’t want to do it. I didn’t tell anyone this. I wasn’t pressured into doing it. I did it because it was my job. But I felt bad about myself doing it. I really did. And this is where it gets complicated. I can’t preach body positivity if I don’t practice it.”

She continued, “So even if I’m not feeling amazing about my body, I felt it was important for me to do the scene anyway in my bra and underwear so people could see my body as it was. I did it for the people who feel like they need to look a certain way.”

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Lizzo

“Hey, so I’ve been working out consistently for the last five years, and it may come as a surprise to some of y’all that I’m not working out to have your ideal body type,” the songstress said in a viral TikTok video from June 2020. “I’m working out to have my ideal body type, and you know what type that is? None of your f–king business. Because I am beautiful, I am strong, I do my job, and I stay on my job.

A little over a year later, she hit back at “fat phobic” commented in an August 2021 Instagram Live. “If you don’t like my music, cool,” the songstress said. “But a lot of people don’t like me because of the way that I look.”

Meghan Trainor

When reflecting on the success of her song “All About That Bass,” the songstress discussed how she became the “face” of the body positivity movement.

“What I was faking was being as confident as the song said,” she explained on the “This is Paris” podcast in July 2021. “I remember making the joke of, ‘I’ll just sing it for the demo.’ Because we wrote it laughing … it’s way to confident and no one has the body type, who’s an artist right now, who can sing about this.”

Camila Cabello

“I was just running in the park minding my own business trying to be fit, trying to keep it healthy,” the singer said in a July 2021 TikTok video. “And I am wearing a top that shows my belly, and I wasn’t tucking it in. Because I was running and existing like a normal person who doesn’t tuck it in all the time.”

Camila continued, “I am grateful for this body that lets me do what I need to do. We are real women with curves and cellulite and stretch marks and fat. And we gotta own that, baby.”

Billie Eilish

“Me and my body’s relationship has been the most toxic relationship you could even imagine,” said during a December 2019 interview with CBS News. “The way that I dress has made that relationship so much better. It’s less about ‘My body is ugly, I don’t want you to see it’. It’s more about, ‘I’m not comfortable wearing this, I’m comfortable wearing this.’ And I don’t mean physically, literally like, feels soft. I mean, like, your mental comfort.”

Camila Cabello

“I haven’t gone on social media at all with the conscious intention of avoiding things that hurt my feelings, but for a second I forgot … and my eyes accidentally ran over a headline of people ‘body shaming me,’” she wrote in an August 2019 Instagram Stories post. “Honestly, first thing I felt was super insecure just imagining what these pictures must look like. Oh no! My cellulite! Oh no! I didn’t suck in my stomach! But then I was like, of course there are bad pictures, of course there are bad angles, my body’s not made of f–king rock, or all muscle, for that matter.”

Addison Rae

“I’ve seen five to 10 tweets and TikToks today talking negatively about my body and weight … It makes me feel insecure, but luckily, I’m looking at it in a different light,” the internet star wrote on Twitter in April 2020. “I’ve been very motivated to start eating better and working out everyday to become the healthiest version of myself!”

Charli D’Amelio

“STOP TALKING ABOUT MY BODY! It’s not your place to tell me if I’m losing weight or gaining weight,” the influencer wrote on Twitter in April 2020. “Why don’t we all just be respectful and understand that we should just be kind and uplift everyone instead of trying to bring others down. I’ve seen these videos about me my friends and complete strangers but it doesn’t matter who you’re doing it to.”

Demi Lovato

“We hear the term body positivity all the time. To be honest, I don’t always feel positive about my body. Sometimes I do not like what I see. I don’t sit there and dwell on it. I also don’t lie to myself,” the singer said at the Teen Vogue Summit in November 2019 “I used to look in the mirror if I was having a bad body image day and say ‘I love my body, you’re beautifully and wonderfully made.’ But I didn’t believe it. I don’t have to lie to myself and tell myself I have an amazing body. All I have to say is ‘I’m healthy.'”