Chloe Bailey is just not up for feedback that try and “rage bait” her about her weight.
The 27-year-old singer was chatting casually with followers on a livestream Saturday, however at one level shut down a viewer, who advised her she was “getting huge.”
“I’m truly shedding pounds,” she mentioned. “And even when I used to be getting huge, and? What about it?” Why you speaking about my physique? What [does] your physique appear to be?”
Then, one other viewer appeared to inform Bailey that the weight-gain remark was attempting to “gaslight” her. She agreed, saying the remark was a type of “rage bait.”
“As a result of I do know my physique tea,” Bailey mentioned. “And I don’t even say that always, however the stress acquired my waist snatched.”
Bailey has been open about coping with physique shaming from a younger age, telling Taraji P. Henson in 2021 she has had “curves” since she was a toddler, and remembers getting stretch marks at 12 years outdated. As she gained extra visibility, she recalled being harassed on-line and, due to her physique sort, was accused of “attempting to promote intercourse.”
Finally, the “Physique Do” singer grew to become extra snug posting extra body-conscious photographs of herself.
“And at first I used to be actually getting unhappy about it,” she mentioned. “However then I believed — why would I let that management my ideas and emotions after I realize it’s a lie. So I type of needed to give it not a lot energy. I’m not doing something loopy; I’m simply loving and appreciating my physique, and I don’t suppose there’s something flawed with that.”
Bailey additionally spoke concerning the results of weight fluctuation in a 2023 interview with rapper Latto.
“I feel generally I’ve physique dysmorphia as a result of there’ll be instances I look and I’ll really feel means larger than I used to be,” she mentioned. “And I look again at photos, I’m like, ‘Chloe, you have been snatched.’ Even proper now, I gained a pair kilos, and I’m like, ‘It seems to be good on me,’ as an alternative of beating myself up about it, as a result of I’ll.”
