Ariana Grande says she used Botox and filler prior to now to ‘conceal’
Ariana Grande has opened up about her use of Botox and lip filler, which she mentioned she “hid behind”.
The singer-songwriter, 30, mentioned she stopped utilizing the cosmetics in 2018 throughout a make-up tutorial video for Vogue.
She used make-up as a “disguise” through the years, she mentioned, particularly as she began her profession “so young”.
“Full transparency… I’ve had a tonne of lip filler over the years and Botox,” she mentioned, earlier than showing emotional.
“For a very long time, magnificence was about hiding for me and now I really feel like perhaps it isn’t, since I finished getting fillers and Botox.
“And maybe I’ll start getting it again one day, I don’t know, to each their own – whatever makes you feel beautiful I do support.”
The 7 Rings singer mentioned she stopped in 2018 as a result of it felt “so much… I just felt like hiding”.
“I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more, and I just think ageing can be such a beautiful thing,” she added.
“Might I get a facelift in 10 years? I might, yeah, but these are just thoughts I feel we should be able to discuss.”
Ariana Grande mentioned she used magnificence to cover. Pic: AP
Reflecting again, she mentioned her view on magnificence has “changed so much” since she was a youngster.
“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not,” she mentioned.
“But, when you’re 17, you don’t know that yet.”
It’s not the primary time Grande has spoken out on appearances.
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Earlier this 12 months, she mentioned in a TikTok video folks should be “gentler and less comfortable” about commenting on how different folks’s our bodies look.
“If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is, healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, non-sexy… we just should really work towards not doing that as much,” she mentioned.
“There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don’t like, that I think we should help each other work towards… we should aim toward being safer, and keeping each other safer.”
She additionally talked about her personal vulnerability, including: “I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my [healthy] but that in fact wasn’t my [healthy].”