Selena Gomez Reflects on Body Changes in Then & Now Instagram Posts: 'I Am Proud to Be Who I Am'

Mar. 15, 2025

Selena Gomez on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Neilson Barnard/Getty

Neilson Barnard/Getty

Selena Gomezis speaking candidly about her body image.

On Monday evening, the singer shared a series of Instagram Stories, showing off her body in photos from over the years.

TheOnly Murders in the Buildingstar, 31, first shared a photo from an earlier date, where she’s photographed wearing a zebra bikini. In the Instagram Story, she wrote, “Today I realized I will never look like this again…”

She followed up the first photo with a more recent bathing suit image. This photo showed Gomez in a black, high-waisted bikini bottom with a white tube-top bikini top.

The second Story caption read, “I’m not perfect, but I am proud to be who I am… Sometimes I forget it’s ok to be me.”

In April 2022, theSelena + Chefstarcalled out body shamerswho criticized her appearance. “Honestly, I don’t care about my weight because people bitch about it anyway,” she said in her TikTok Stories. “‘You’re too small,’ ‘you’re too big,’ ‘that doesn’t fit.’ ‘Meh meh meh meh.'”

“Bitch, I am perfect the way I am,” she added. “Moral of the story? Bye.”

Selena Gomez in April 2022.Tiktok

In a recorded Instagram Live video reposted via popnewsdaily account on TikTok, Gomez addressed the critics while chatting with her 9-year-old sister,Gracie Elliott Teefey.

“I’m a little bit big right nowbecause I enjoyed myself during the holidays,” she told her followers before turning her head to Gracie, asking for her opinion, “right?”

After Gracie appeared to agree with the singer, Gomez began to burst into laughter.

Selena Gomez and Gracie Elliot Teefey on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.Frazer Harrison/WireImage

Frazer Harrison/WireImage

In a March 2023Instagram videoshared to Rare Beauty’s Instagram account, theentrepreneur revealed the affirmations she’d pass downto her younger self.

“Something I wish I could tell my younger self is: Appreciate the face and the body that you have. May not look like everyone else, but you are who you are, and be proud of that,” Gomez said in the clip.

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Gomez — who underwenta kidney transplantin September 2017 due to complications fromlupus—has previously explained that her condition causes “weight fluctuations"that used to bother her.

“I have lupus and deal with kidney issues and high blood pressure, so I deal with a lot of health issues, and for me, that’s when I really started noticing more of the body image stuff,” she said in an interview with friend Raquelle Stevens on her video podcastGiving Back Generationin November 2019.

The “Lose You to Love Me” singer said that the “combination” of her lupus and the medication she needs alters her weight.

source: people.com