Ariana Grande has spoken about her "vulnerability" when it comes being within the highlight and having folks consistently touch upon her physique.

Speaking in a TikTok video, the singer-songwriter, 29, mentioned she "wanted to address" issues about her look that the general public have been speaking about for a "decade or longer".

"I just wanted to ... talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and to be paid such close attention to," she mentioned.

"I think we could be, I think we should be, gentler and less comfortable commenting on people's bodies, no matter what."

The two-time Grammy award-winning artist added: "If you assume you are saying one thing good or well-intentioned, no matter it's, wholesome, unhealthy, large, small, this, that, horny, non-sexy ... we simply ought to actually work in direction of not doing that as a lot.

"There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don't like, that I think we should help each other work towards... We should aim toward being safer, and keeping each other safer."

Grande has been open about her psychological well being following the Manchester Arena assault at her live performance in May 2017 when a suicide bomber killed 22 folks.

She informed Vogue in June 2018 that she "always had anxiety" and the next 12 months shared a picture on Instagram exhibiting the consequences of post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) on her mind.

Grande, whose hits embody One Last Time, Dangerous Woman, and Thank U, Next, added within the video: "There are many various sorts of lovely... personally, for me, the physique that you have been evaluating my present physique to was the unhealthiest model of my physique.

"I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy but that in fact wasn't my healthy.

"I do know I should not have to clarify that however I do really feel like possibly having an openness and a few form of vulnerability right here will [mean] one thing good would possibly come from it.

"Healthy can look different."

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She added: "You never know what someone is going through even if you are coming from a loving place and a caring place, that person probably is working on it or has a support system that they are working on it with.

"You by no means know. So be light with one another and with yourselves.

"I think you're beautiful, no matter what you're going through, no matter what weight, no matter how you like to do your makeup these days, no matter what cosmetic procedures you've had or not."

Grande is about to star as Glinda the Good Witch within the upcoming Wicked movie based mostly on the hit musical of the identical identify.

Oscar-nominated British actress Cynthia Erivo will seem as Elphaba - the Wicked Witch of the West.

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