Brandy is responding to those who body-shamed her on social media.
Taking to Instagram, Brandy set the record straight.
“Perhaps we’ve been looking for it in all the wrong places,” she began. “In youth, in perfection, in approval and in bodies that never change and faces that never age. But life was never meant to leave us untouched. It shapes us. It humbles us. It refines us. Every season leaves its signature upon us. And maybe that’s where beauty has been all along. Not in escaping change, but in becoming through it.”
“I’ve learned that it takes only a moment to form an opinion about someone’s appearance. And a lifetime to understand what they’ve lived through,” Brandy wrote.
BRNADY SAYD WE SHOULD BE ‘GENTLER WITH ONE ANOTHER’
“So may we become gentler with one another,” she continued. “Not because everyone is fragile, but because everyone is carrying a story we cannot see.”
She told her detractors to think before they spew out hurtful comments.
“Before you speak about someone’s body, before you speak about someone’s face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone’s child. Someone’s friend, someone’s dream, and someone’s life. A soul. And souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces.”
She went on to claim how she learned to love herself unconditionally.
”I’ve stopped trying to earn my reflection,” she said. “And I’ve stopped asking the mirror to tell me who I am. I know who I am. And that knowing has given me a freedom no opinion could ever take away. If this post leaves you with anything, I hope it’s this:”
The controversy began after she made a homecoming visit to her birthplace, McComb, Mississippi. She was honored with a key to the city and plans for a future music museum. When photos and videos from the event went viral, some social media users began heavily scrutinizing her appearance. Many pointed out that she looked noticeably slimmer and speculated about her health.