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Selena Gomez hits back at body critics: ‘I am perfect the way I am’

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Selena Gomez hit back at haters who criticize her weight.Getty Images

Selena Gomez said “bye” to her body-shamers.

The “Only Murders in the Building” star said on TikTok that trying to “stay skinny” is not worth missing out on delicious foods.

“So I be trying to stay skinny, but I went to Jack in the Box and I got four tacos, three egg rolls, onion rings and a spicy chicken sandwich,” she said in a clip posted to her account.

“But honestly, I don’t care about my weight because people bitch about it anyway.”

Gomez, 29, then mimicked the usual comments she hears about her body, quipping, “’You’re too small. You’re too big. That doesn’t fit. Meh, meh, meh, meh.’”

The “Revelación” singer ended her video on a note of confidence, telling her viewers, “Bitch, I am perfect the way I am.”

Although Gomez has been actively posting TikTok videos, the actress-singer recently revealed she has not been on social media in more than four years because of how unhappy it made her.

“I haven’t been on the internet in four and a half years,” she shared on “Good Morning America.”

“It has changed my life completely. I am happier, I am more present. I connect more with people. It makes me feel normal.”

A screenshot of Selena Gomez on TikTok.
“Bitch, I am perfect the way I am,” Gomez said. selenagomez/TikTok

The “Lose You to Love Me” songstress shared in a 2020 livestream with fellow Disney alum Miley Cyrus that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

“I felt a huge weight lifted off me when I found out,” Gomez said. “I could take a deep breath and go, ‘OK, that explains so much.’

“There were all things that honestly should have taken me down. Every time I went through something, I was like, ‘What else? What else am I going to have to deal with?’”