Ariana Grande's health: A timeline of the obsession surrounding her body image

Ariana Grande ought to be celebrating. April 2023: Grande posts a TikTok addressing people's comments about her body Body-shaming comments seem to have hit a nerve with Grande last year. October - November 2024: Numerous popular posts claim Erivo and Grande have eating disorders While Grande has already addressed the concerns around her weight the hypervisiblity of the "Wicked" press tour has revived the discourse. Little girls might see the billboard on the highway of Ariana looking strikingly thin and think they should look like that.” In a USA Today interview, an eating disorder expert, Dr. Elizabeth Wassenaar at the Eating Recovery Center explained, "These comments about how your body is acceptable or unacceptable, it reinforces again that you are not worth more than your body and that you have to present yourself a certain way for the world to find you acceptable." We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism Nov. 6: On "Las Culturistas," Grande calls out people who try to diagnose her On the podcast "Las Culturistas," Grande, along with her "Wicked" co-star Bowen Yang and podcast co-host Matt Rogers were joking about the internet's intrusive ability to diagnose a celebrity with a mental illness without the full picture.