A singer-songwriter described how body shaming has intensified as her fame grows, making career milestones feel overshadowed. She said she removed social media apps from her phone to protect her mental health, but online discourse still reached her. She shared a Substack post to summarize what she said is driving deep sadness. She stated that she cannot stop speaking about mistreatment because it keeps happening at an accelerating pace. She said no one can protect or save her from it, while expectations for more work continue despite increasingly hostile environments. She also clarified that she is not being defiant, and that she does not choose her body or weight as a form of rebellion.
"Hi everybody. This isn't going to be a nice post so I decided to cushion the blow by leading with a picture where I look literally amazing. I have had insta/tiktok/twitter deleted from my phone for some time now for the preservation of my mental health, but the discourse this week appears to be so large that it has still gotten back to me. As such I felt compelled to wade in and speak for myself !!!"
"It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body. I would love to stop but I cannot because it keeps happening, at an accelerating and worsening pace as I become more famous. There is no relief from this - nobody can protect me or save me from this, and all that is demanded of me is more and more work as every environment I am placed in becomes more hostile."
"I am not choosing to look like this or weigh this much as some kind of punk rock act of liberty. I simply have a body, one that I would of course like to change in order to fit in and avoid all of this abuse, but I have had extreme difficulty in doing so."
Read at Irish Independent
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