Selena Gomez’s Most Empowering Quotes About Body Positivity Over the Years: ‘I Am Perfect the Way I Am’

She’s so rare! Since rising to stardom, Selena Gomez has candidly discussed her journey with self-love and body positivity.

In 2015, the Texas native opened up about taking hateful messages from trolls and turning them into something special with her Revival album.

“I was getting a lot of hate for my body and ‘you’re gaining weight’ [commentary] and so I was in Mexico and I was just feeling all of this stuff and I would be lying to you if I said it didn’t kind of hurt my feelings, but I kind of channeled that into my music,” the singer told Extra TV at the time.

Gomez noted that Revival tracks “Survivors,” “Kill Em With Kindness” and “Rise” were her attempts to address the negativity she faced online. “It’s all geared towards me trying to be heard,” she noted, calling the album “the best thing that I’ve ever done in my whole career” at the time.

The Disney Channel alum later admitted that the body-shamers made her decide to take a step back from social media. “In reality, that’s just my truth. I fluctuate. It depends on what’s happening in my life,” she detailed on the “Giving Back Generation” podcast in 2019.

Gomez pointed out that her weight change came from various health issues, including lupus, kidney problems and high blood pressure. “That got to me big time,” she said about the hate she received from strangers. “I think for me, that really messed me up for a bit.”

After both The Good Fight and Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot poked fun at the performer’s health issues, her fans fought back in her defense — and so did she.

“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” Gomez wrote via Twitter in August 2021. “I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.”

She added: “My fans always have my back. LOVE YOU.”

Over the years, the Only Murders in the Building actress learned to drown out all the noise on social media.

“Being in the public eye from such an early age certainly comes with a lot of pressure. It’s hard to feel comfortable when you feel like everyone is watching, judging and commenting on the way you look,” she told Glamour UK in February 2022. “Self confidence is still something I work on daily, but when I stopped trying to conform to society’s unrealistic standards of beauty, my perspective entirely shifted.”

Keep scrolling to see more of Gomez’s most inspiring quotes about body positivity:

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Selena Gomez’s Most Empowering Quotes About Body Positivity Over the Years: ‘I Am Perfect the Way I Am’

She’s so rare! Since rising to stardom, Selena Gomez has candidly discussed her journey with self-love and body positivity.

In 2015, the Texas native opened up about taking hateful messages from trolls and turning them into something special with her Revival album.

“I was getting a lot of hate for my body and ‘you’re gaining weight’ [commentary] and so I was in Mexico and I was just feeling all of this stuff and I would be lying to you if I said it didn’t kind of hurt my feelings, but I kind of channeled that into my music,” the singer told Extra TV at the time.

Gomez noted that Revival tracks “Survivors,” “Kill Em With Kindness” and “Rise” were her attempts to address the negativity she faced online. “It’s all geared towards me trying to be heard,” she noted, calling the album “the best thing that I’ve ever done in my whole career” at the time.

The Disney Channel alum later admitted that the body-shamers made her decide to take a step back from social media. “In reality, that’s just my truth. I fluctuate. It depends on what’s happening in my life,” she detailed on the “Giving Back Generation” podcast in 2019.

Gomez pointed out that her weight change came from various health issues, including lupus, kidney problems and high blood pressure. “That got to me big time,” she said about the hate she received from strangers. “I think for me, that really messed me up for a bit.”

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After both The Good Fight and Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot poked fun at the performer’s health issues, her fans fought back in her defense — and so did she.

“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” Gomez wrote via Twitter in August 2021. “I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.”

She added: “My fans always have my back. LOVE YOU.”

Over the years, the Only Murders in the Building actress learned to drown out all the noise on social media.

“Being in the public eye from such an early age certainly comes with a lot of pressure. It’s hard to feel comfortable when you feel like everyone is watching, judging and commenting on the way you look,” she told Glamour UK in February 2022. “Self confidence is still something I work on daily, but when I stopped trying to conform to society’s unrealistic standards of beauty, my perspective entirely shifted.”

Keep scrolling to see more of Gomez’s most inspiring quotes about body positivity:

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Finding Inspiration

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Taking Back Control

In 2015, the Spring Breakers actress shut down speculation about her weight gain after a trip to Mexico. “I love being happy with me yall #theresmoretolove,” she wrote via Instagram.

That same month, Gomez got honest about her decision to address the criticism. “The reason why I did that is because I didn’t want [the trolls] to win. ‘Cause then, the next day, it wasn’t about how I gained weight,” she said during an interview with Ryan Seacrest in 2015. “It was about how I embraced it. And that’s just kind of my approach.”

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Putting Herself First

During an interview with Glamour UK in February 2022, the Critics’ Choice award nominee detailed her journey with body positivity. “It took me a long time to realize that I only wanted to be myself – that what made me unique was also what made me beautiful,” she shared.

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Choosing Happiness

“So I be trying to stay skinny, but I went to Jack in the Box and I got four tacos, three egg rolls, onion rings and a spicy chicken sandwich,” Gomez said via TikTok in April 2022. “But honestly, I don’t care about my weight because people bitch about it anyway.”

She continued: “‘You’re too small,’ ‘you’re too big,’ ‘that doesn’t fit.’ ‘Meh meh meh meh.’ Bitch, I am perfect the way I am.”

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Learning to Listen to Herself

In June 2022, the Selena + Chef star recalled a challenging experience that affected her body image.

“I actually did an album cover and I was really ashamed after I did it. I had to work through those feelings because I realized it was attached to something deep that was going on,” she explained during a roundtable interview for The Hollywood Reporter. “And it was a choice that I wasn’t necessarily happy that I made, but I think that I’ve done my best, at least I try to be myself.”

Gomez, who was seemingly referring to her 2015 album Revival, noted that she didn’t feel comfortable at the time. “And I’m not an overly sexual person,” she added. “Sometimes I like to feel sexy, but that doesn’t mean it’s for somebody else. It can be for me.”

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A Perfect Beach Body

Gomez uploaded a TikTok of her lounging in a colorful swimsuit on a yacht in August 2022. “Suck it in,” she lip-synced in the clip. “I’m not sucking s—t in. Real stomachs is coming the f—k back, OK?”