Selena Gomez hits back at body-shamers with Sydney Harbour clip
Selena Gomez took to Instagram after bikini photos of her in Australia showing a scar drew negative comments on social media.
The 25-year-old wrote that the beauty myth was "an obsession with physical perfection that traps modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self consciousness and self-hatred."
Gomez says she "chose to take care of myself" because she wants to and "not to prove anything to anyone."
The scar was the result of a complication from her 2017 kidney transplant.
The post included a video of Gomez with friends on a boat in Sydney Harbour. Gomez is in Sydney for Hillsong's Colour Conference.
Gomez took to Instagram after bikini photos of her in Australia showing a scar drew negative social media comments.
The singer had previously discussed feeling "comfortable" with her scars.
"It was really hard in the beginning. I remember looking at myself in the mirror completely naked and thinking about all the things that I used to bitch about and just asking 'Why?'," she told Billboard in November.
"When I look at my body now, I just see life. There are a million things I can do - lasers and creams and all that stuff - but I'm okay with it," she said.
AP, Fairfax Media