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Brandy shared an emotional post on Instagram about body-shaming.Getty Images for ESSENCE<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learned that it takes only a moment to form an opinion about someone\u2019s appearance, and a lifetime to understand what they\u2019ve lived through,\u201d the Grammy-winning singer and actress wrote in the emotional post. \u201cOur words have weight. Our judgments have weight. Our kindness does too.\u201d <\/p>\n
Fans have been speculating about the star\u2019s health after recent photos from an early July visit to her hometown of McComb, Mississippi circulated on the internet. Brandy, 47, had been in the area to host a community celebration, according to local NBC News affiliate WLBT<\/a>. While there, she was presented a key from Pike County, the affiliate said. <\/p>\n Brandy wrote in her Instagram post that, perhaps, people have been looking for beauty in \u201cbodies that never change and faces that never age.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cBut life was never meant to leave us untouched. It shapes us. It humbles us. It refines us,\u201d the singer wrote in the post. \u201cEvery season leaves its signature upon us. And maybe that\u2019s where beauty has been all along. Not in escaping change, but in becoming through it.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Instagram post<\/a>, the singer shared that she had stopped looking to her appearance as a measure of self-worth, adding that the outlook has been freeing. She also challenged fans to think twice before passing judgment. <\/p>\n \u201cIf this post leaves you with anything, I hope it\u2019s this:Before you speak about someone\u2019s body, before you speak about someone\u2019s face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone\u2019s child. Someone\u2019s friend. Someone\u2019s dream. Someone\u2019s life. A soul,\u201d Brandy said in the post. \u201cAnd souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces.\u201d <\/p>\n The singer joins many other celebrities who\u2019ve cautioned against commenting on body image. In a December 2024 interview<\/a>, Ariana Grande slammed society\u2019s comfort with discussing people\u2019s appearance. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a comfortability that people have commenting on that that I think is really dangerous,\u201d Grande said.<\/a> \u201cI think that I\u2019m really lucky to have the support system that I have to just know and trust that I\u2019m beautiful. But I do know what the pressure of that noise feels like. It\u2019s been a resident in my life since I was 17 and I just don\u2019t invite it in anymore. It\u2019s not welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n Billie Eilish has also addressed discussions around her body, telling Vogue in a 2023 interview <\/a>that hearing comments about her appearance continues to be painful. <\/p>\n \u201cI like myself more than I used to, and I\u2019m more interested in how I feel than how they feel. But then also that might be a load of bulls— because it still hurts my feelings,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n