Céline Dion hits back at body-shamers who say she’s too thin: ‘You can’t please everybody’
Céline Dion is unbothered.
The singer, 51, brushed off fans’ concerns over her slimmer figure, asking Entertainment Tonight while flexing her toned bicep Friday, “Is there anything wrong with my body?”
Dion has been a non-stop target of body-shaming from tabloids and social media users who have criticized her weight and deemed her “too skinny.”
“I’m sorry, but Celine looks too boney and just way too skinny in a unhealthy looking way,” user @EBC009 tweeted last week. “I don’t care what fashion designer (wear) you have on. I hope she’s okay.”
Dion’s response? “You can’t please everybody,” she said.
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“I do ballet. I do a lot of stretching and I work out because it helps my mind, body and soul,” Dion told the outlet on the opening night of her Courage Tour in Canada.
She continued: “When you go back, when I was 12 years old, my face was rounder because you have more fat when you’re younger…But I’ve always been very thin.”
Regardless of the criticism and concern, the Grammy Award-winner said she’s only focused on what’s best for herself after developing a tough skin in the music industry.
“If you don’t want to be criticized, you are in the wrong place,” the singer said. “I take the positive. I take what’s good for me. I leave behind what is not good for me. I let my management take care of that, and if it hurts anyone, they will take care of that. And I need to focus on what’s right for me, how I feel.”
This is not the first time Dion has addressed body critics.
After her weight and risque couture selections made headlines at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year, Dion told haters, “If you like it, I’ll be there. If you don’t, leave me alone.”
“I want to wear whatever I want, I want to do whatever I choose to do,” she said during an interview on Dan Wootton’s podcast in January. “I’m doing this for me. I want to feel strong, beautiful, feminine, fierce and sexy.”
‘Leave me alone’: Celine Dion responds to body-shamers concerned over her slimmer figure
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