Selena Gomez candidly reflects on changing body with throwback bikini snap
![Selena has got candid about body image and body changes (Image: Getty Images for MTV)](/upload/news/2024/01/23/152002.jpg)
Selena Gomez has candidly reflected on the changes that her body has gone through as she has grown up with a throwback bikini snap.
The Only Murders in the Building starlet, 31, took to social media this week to share an old photo of herself donning a bikini. In the snap, she looked a lot different from how she does today, with the singer and actress highlighting this fact.
"Today I realised I will never look like this again..." Selena penned over the top of the throwback bikini snap. She then shared a more up-to-date bikini snap and wrote: "I'm not perfect, but I am proud to be who I am.... sometimes I forget it's okay to be me."
READ MORE: Selena Gomez's new boyfriend Benny Blanco escorted off Emmys red carpet in awkward moment
![Selena Gomez candidly reflects on changing body with throwback bikini snap qeithidttiqrtinv](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article31952200.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/1_PAY-Selena-Gomez-Shows-Off-Her-Bikini-Body-In-Miami.jpg)
![Selena Gomez candidly reflects on changing body with throwback bikini snap](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article31952199.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/0_PAY-PREMIUM-EXCLUSIVE-MUST-CALL-FOR-PRICING-BEFORE-USAGE-STRICT-WEB-EMBARGO-UNTIL-1730PM-UK-TIME-O.jpg)
Reacting to Selena's recent social media post, fans have taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, to praise the star. One person said: "Selena Gomez has the most beautiful grown woman body I’ve ever seen and it’s heartbreaking to see people still hating on her when she has a disease that makes her weight fluctuate all the time." Another added: "Selena Gomez you are perfect either way."
![Selena Gomez shares makeup-free selfies as she's hailed 'most beautiful ever'](/upload/news/2023/02/02/457_m.jpg)
Selena has often faced body-shamers, with the hitmaker even opening up on this topic last year in a TikTok Live when she spoke about her experience of taking medication for lupus, the autoimmune disease she suffers.
Last February she candidly said: "I tend to hold a lot of water weight and that happens very normally, and then when I’m off it I tend to kind of lose weight. I just wanted to say and encourage anyone out there who feels any sort of shame for exactly what [you’re] going through, [when] nobody knows the real story… you’re beautiful and you’re wonderful."
Selena, who shot to fame as a child star on Barney & Friends, has been living with lupus, an autoimmune disease, for more than a decade. In an October 2015 cover story with Billboard, Selena revealed her lupus diagnosis and how she was diagnosed in 2013.
Speaking to the publication at the time, she said: "I was diagnosed with lupus, and I’ve been through chemotherapy. That’s what my break was really about. I could’ve had a stroke." And then in 2017 Selena received a kidney transplant from her friend, How I Met Your Father actress, Francia Raisa.
Read more similar news:
Comments:
comments powered by Disqus![](/upload/news/2024/06/27/176126_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/27/176124_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/24/176066_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/23/176049_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176198_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176197_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176193_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176192_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176191_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176190_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/07/01/176189_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176186_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176185_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176184_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176183_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176182_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176181_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176180_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/30/176179_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176178_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176177_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176176_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176175_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176173_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176172_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176171_m.jpg)
![](/upload/news/2024/06/29/176170_m.jpg)