{"id":57620,"date":"2023-02-18T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=57620"},"modified":"2023-02-18T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:59:39","slug":"selena-gomez-responds-to-malicious-comments-about-her-body-im-not-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/selena-gomez-responds-to-malicious-comments-about-her-body-im-not-a-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez responds to malicious comments about her body &#8216;I&#8217;m not a model&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong> often uses her platforms to address important issues related to mental health and self-esteem. The actress was diagnosed with <strong>lupus<\/strong>, an autoimmune <strong>disease<\/strong>, in 2015 and had to undergo a transplant during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent livestream on her <strong>Tik Tok<\/strong> account last Thursday, February 16th, the artist talked about the effects of the medication used to control the disease on her body. The &#8220;<strong>Only Murders in The Building<\/strong>&#8221; star explained that the medications cause her to retain a lot of fluid, gaining weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/universesgmarie\/status\/1626587196345155587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/universesgmarie\/status\/1626587196345155587<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also like:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>[When I&#8217;m on medication] I tend to retain a lot of fluid, it happens normally. When I&#8217;m not taking it, I tend to get thinner<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, the artist explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I just want to encourage anyone who is ashamed of something they&#8217;re going through and no one knows the reality. I just want people to know that you&#8217;re beautiful and wonderful<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Selena said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Yes, we have days where we feel like crap, but I&#8217;d rather try to be healthy and take care of myself . My medications are important and I think they will help me<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, the actress continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I&#8217;m not a model and I never will be. I think they&#8217;re cool, but I&#8217;m definitely not that<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I love them, thank you for your support. And if you don&#8217;t [support her], let them go because I don&#8217;t believe in shaming people or anything<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1626345090284126209\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Selena Gomez goes live on TikTok to address comments about her body. <\/p>\n<p>She talks about her health, medication for lupus and how they affect her body. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19hr7XkiFm\">pic.twitter.com\/19hr7XkiFm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1626345090284126209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selena Gomez often uses her platforms to address important issues related to mental health and self-esteem. The actress was diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease, in 2015 and had to undergo a transplant during treatment. In a recent livestream on her Tik Tok account last Thursday, February 16th, the artist talked about the effects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":57625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,1361],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-57620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-pop","9":"category-social-network","10":"tag-selena-gomez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}