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Melanie Lynskey made her debut in the post-apocalyptic HBO drama 'The Last of Us' on February 5. She plays Kathleen, a ruthlessly intelligent warlord and revolutionary leader. Lynskey was forced to defend her casting when 'America’s Next Top Model' winner Adrianne Curry criticized her appearance on social media. The model commented under a photo from Lynskey's InStyle cover shoot, saying, “her body says life of luxury…not post apocolyptic [sic] warlord. where is Linda Hamilton when you need her?”

Lynskey was quick to respond. "Firstly- this is a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO’s The Last Of Us. And I’m playing a person who meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA. I am supposed to be SMART, ma’am. I don’t need to be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for." She went on to explain that she wanted Kathleen to be "feminine, and soft-voiced, and all the things that we’ve been told are ‘weak.’" Lynskey finished with the point that the most exciting part of her job is subverting expectations, making it very clear that Curry's comments fell short of insult. 

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Selena Gomez took body shamers in stride after her red carpet appearance at the 2023 Golden Globes. The multi-hyphenate star took to Instagram with her award show date, her little sister Gracie Teefey, to demonstrate some body positivity. “I’m a little bit big right now because I enjoyed myself during the holidays,” she said, asking Teefey, “I mean… right?” Her sister confirmed enthusiastically. Supporters were quick to defend Gomez, however, arguing that she shouldn't have to explain why her body looks a certain way. The star previously commented about body shaming in 2022, brushing it off because she realized she'll never be able to please anyone, concluding "I am perfect the way I am." Even earlier, on Instagram in 2018, she wrote: "The beauty myth - an obsession with physical perfection that traps modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society’s impossible definition of flawless beauty. I chose to take care of myself because I want to, not to prove anything to anyone."

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Britney Spears has been incredibly fit for her entire life, partly due to her non-stop work schedule and partly due to her love of dance. She took to Instagram to share that was looking for a personal trainer a couple of months ago to help keep her in good shape. Apparently, one of the trainers she met with immediately crossed every line. "The first thing she did to me was literally—and I'm not even lying—pinch the skin on my stomach and legs and told me I need to get my younger body back," Spears revealed. "It made me cry. I obviously didn't hire her so I did it myself!!!" she went on. Spears decided to become her own personal trainer after that nasty experience and is fitter and feistier than ever. 

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As a victim of much body shaming herself, Britney Spears felt it necessary to own up to a mistake she made in a September 13 Instagram post of a Rodney Dangerfield quote that says, "I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people," for which Spears wrote in the caption, "I wish I could have chosen [...] my dancers ... I mean if I had Christina Aguilera’s dancers I would have looked extremely small." Fans quickly informed her in the comment section that fatphobia and body shaming was not appropriate, and news of Aguilera unfollowing her came shortly after.

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Spears wrote in a follow-up post, "By no means was I being critical of Christina’s beautiful body, it is what it is !!! I flew to see her show once and the main thing I noticed was the difference of our people on stage !!! By no means did I even mention Christina, look at my post !!! I was inspired by her show and she is a beautiful woman of power … Thank you @xtina for inspiring me !!!" She continued, "To be honest, I’m not trying to be critical of anybody. What I posted is a projection of the insecurities I deal with all the time as a result of how my parents and the media have treated me … I would never intentionally body shame anybody because I know what it feels like … I struggle with this because of how I feel about myself, not because I hate how anybody looks." She added that she felt her family didn't let her choose her backup dancers to feed into her insecurity, and then thanked her fans for being understanding with her. 

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Yumi Nu -

Controversial clinical psychologist and YouTuber Jordan Peterson had the audacity to tweet about the model's cover debut for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. "Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that," he wrote, and fans, as well as people who never even heard of Nu, came to her defense and mocked Peterson's response.

“’Authoritarian’? Chunky women on magazine covers? You sound like a parody of you,” one Twitter user—on the more savory side of the responses—wrote. 

“It’s a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate & retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned & properly changed by those who know better,” the '12 Rules For Life' author responded, with two links to scientific studies on attractiveness (which don't substantiate his point, one user pointed out), while he failed to acknowledge the long history of "plus-size" attractiveness that eclipses the more recent skinny craze.

Though Peterson did have some people echo his harmful comments about Nu's body, it appears he received such backlash he decided a few hours later to leave Twitter. "So I told my staff to change my password, to keep me from temptation, and am departing once again," he wrote, explaining, "The endless flood of vicious insult is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else"—which he ironically had sent in Nu's direction just hours earlier.  

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'Lady Bird' and 'Booksmart' star Beanie Feldstein opened up to Vogue about her struggle to meet society's beauty standards from a very young age. "It was clear to me that I was chubby and that I was bigger, and for a long time, because I was a kid, I would do what the adults were telling me to do, which is to try to not be that way," she said. 

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Camila Cabello opened up about her struggle with body image after having a terrible time at the beach in Miami. In a lengthy post on Instagram April 2, the singer admitted that the paparazzi made her feel "vulnerable" and the subsequent comments online impacted her self-esteem. She said of her beach day: “I held my core so tight my abs hurt and didn’t breathe and barely smiled and was so self conscious of where the paps were the whole time i couldn’t let go and relax and do what we’re meant to do when we go out into nature," adding that she's "never had a worse time at the beach.

Though she noted "I’m not yet at the point in my journey where I can not give a [ ]," as a single woman in her 20s with a new album on the way, she shared some of her strategies of dealing with body image issues which include listening to podcasts on intuitive eating, following women who accept their cellulite, stretch marks, bellies, bloating, and weight fluctuations, and reminding herself that when she felt shame around her body "I was thinking the culture’s thoughts and not my own. A culture who has gotten so used to an image of what a ‘healthy’ woman’s body looks like that is completely not real for a lot of women."

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Maren Morris -

Country music superstar Maren Morris took to Instagram on March 19 to reminisce about her controversial decision to appear topless in Playboy. "Before I go into the next album era, I did @playboy in 2019 and got a lot of hate at the time, but I’m the proudest that I showed country female sexuality in its realist form here," she wrote in the caption. "We are nuanced, we are messy and stretch-marked in the most beautiful way. Don’t sleep on us. We tell your down home stories in the most unflinching, gorgeous lane." Sadly, her conservative country music fans just saw another opportunity to rehash the old hate and body shaming, but Morris wasn't afraid to respond. She shared her response to a comment that read, "Please dress appropriate" on her Stories, which read: "RESPECT 4 MOM BOOBZ." She also noted, "I see this kind of comment a lot on country music accounts at me, soooooo GET OVER IT."

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'Bridgerton' star Nicola Coughlan made a public plea for people to stop commenting on her body—at the very least directly to her. The 'Derry Girls' actress wrote on Instagram on January 30, "Hello! So just a thing - if you have an opinion about my body please, please don’t share it with me." She said that most people are "not trying to be offensive" but added, "I am just one real life human being and it’s really hard to take the weight of thousands of opinions on how you look being sent directly to you every day." Coughlan tried to reason with fans and continued, "If you have an opinion about me that’s ok, I understand I’m on TV and that people will have things to think and say but I beg you not to send it to me directly." 

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'Clueless' star Alicia Silverstone has been in the spotlight for decades and is no stranger to body shaming. Luckily, she seems to have a pretty healthy body image and pulls no punches when clapping back! When the actress came across a photo of herself online that was titled 'Alicia Silverstone Candid Fat Photo,' she gave a hilarious response on TikTok. She showed the photo with the ridiculous title and then cut to herself smiling and giving the middle finger, with the song 'abcdfu' by Gayle playing in the background. She captioned it "Damn. I think I look good!" And she does!

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For Janet Jackson, her body shamer was sadly her big brother. The singer addresses her relationship with Michael Jackson, along with her personal battles with weight fluctuation, in her new eponymous two-part documentary. "There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names. 'Pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow," Jackson shared. "He would laugh about it and I'd laugh too, but then there was some­where down inside that it would hurt." She was around 11 years old and he was adult at the time. "When you have somebody say you're too heavy, it affects you."

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Melanie Lynskey -

Actress Melanie Lynskey said in an interview with Rolling Stone, published on January 15, that she was body shamed on the set of 'Yellowjackets.' She alleged that a member of the production made critical comments about her body during filming: "They were asking me, ‘What do you plan to do? I'm sure the producers will get you a trainer. They'd love to help you with this,'" she recalled. Fortunately, Lynskey said her co-stars Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, and Juliette Lewis quickly came to her defense, adding that Lewis even wrote a letter to the Showtime series' producers on her behalf. These comments are no small issue, especially as Lynskey has admitted that she previously struggled with disordered eating and online body shaming.

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Rebel Wilson has undergone a serious physical transformation in 2020, shedding as much as 80 pounds (36kg). However, she has mixed feelings about her weight loss. The actress revealed that agents used to take one look at her and say "no way" because of her weight. This led her to say "You know what? I'm gonna take something that you think is a disadvantage — I don't actually think it's a disadvantage — and I'm going to turn it into my success story." Wilson became hugely successful even though she was rejected for many roles because of her body type. After embarking on her year-long health journey, she realized that she was actually able to lose weight, which she had previously felt was impossible. This made her feel conflicted about giving in to the aesthetic standards of the entertainment industry, even though her career wasn't the motivation for her lifestyle change. 

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'Shark Tank' judge Barbara Corcoran faced some serious backlash after body shaming Whoopi Goldberg during a conversation on 'The View.' Co-host Sunny Hostin was talking about the brand Good American‘s range of size-inclusive jeans, and Goldberg joked “Well, I have to try them…Will they fit this COVID [butt]?” Corcoran responded by saying “When you get finished with those jeans, and decide you don’t like them, give them to me. I’m gonna make two pairs.” Fans were not pleased about the rude comment and Corcoran posted an apology video shortly afterward, saying “I made a joke at Whoopi’s expense, which I now realize wasn’t funny. For anyone who I may have offended unintentionally, I just wanted to say I really am very sorry.”

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Billie Eilish is one young star whose body has, for some reason, become an obsession for millions of fans and media outlets. She rose to fame at the age of 13 and usually wore baggy clothes that hid her body. Now 19 years old, she has been the focus of intense scrutiny after experimenting with new styles. She famously appeared on the cover of Vogue in June wearing a corset and showing off her new blonde hairstyle. Her elegant Marilyn Monroe-inspired Met Gala look was another departure from her previous look. However, rather than applauding the singer for her excellent taste and moving on, many are obsessing over how her body looks in her new clothes. Eilish even lost some fans after posting a photo from her Vogue shoot on Instagram: "I lost 100,000 followers, just because of the boobs. People are scared of big boobs."

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Eilish has spoken out on the issue of body shaming before. During the kickoff of her Where Do We Go? world tour, she played a video in which she speaks about the criticism she faces over her body and style choices. Remarkably, as the video played she stripped down until she was in her underwear and then slid into a pool of water.

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Alana Thompson -

Alana Thompson, better known by the nickname Honey Boo Boo, has presented a new version of herself to the world with her recent Teen Vogue profile. In the in-depth interview, she discusses the body-shaming she has experienced since she first appeared on TV at the age of six starring in the TLC reality show 'Toddlers & Tiaras.' Thompson is now 16 years old and has spent 10 years in the public eye having her body scrutinized, criticized, and ridiculed. While many say that Gen Z is breaking down fatphobia, Thompson disagrees: “I feel like my generation is probably making it worse. Everybody's all about body positivity, body positivity, until they see a body they don't like.” Luckily, she has her own ideas about self-worth. “I don't ever look at people and I'm like, ‘Oh, I wish I was like her,’” she told the interviewer. “Because I don't ever wish to be like nobody. I am my own person.”

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Camila Cabello - Camila Cabello has recently been fending off body shamers, and she took to TikTok to share a much needed lesson on self-love. In the video posted on July 16, she explains that she was just on a jog, "minding my own business trying to be fit," wearing a top that shows her belly, which she then shows in the video. "And I wasn't tucking it in, because I was running and existing like a normal person that doesn't tuck it in all the time," she continued. "And I was like, 'Damn.' But then I reminded myself being at war with your body is so last season." In her candid, make-up-free clip, the singer adds, "I am grateful for this body that lets me do what I need to do. We are real women with curves and cellulite and stretchmarks and fat. And we gotta own that, baby."

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Lizzo -

Lizzo has long been expertly fending off body-shamers, but on an Instagram Live on August 15 she broke down after the latest wave of fat-shaming, racism, and accusations of catering to white audiences, all of which followed the release of her and Cardi B's new song 'Rumors.' "For the most part it doesn't hurt my feelings, I don't care," she said through her tears. "I just think when I'm working this hard my tolerance gets lower...my patience is lower, I'm more sensitive. And it gets to me." 

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Lizzo -

Usually Lizzo lets people's harmful comments pass without wasting her time, but she addressed comedian Aries Spears' fat-shaming comments about her body at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards while accepting the Video For Good award. 

In a recent interview, Spears had taken lows blows at both Lizzo and her supporters, going so far as to claim "that she looks like the [poo] emoji" and "a plate of mashed potatoes." His comments went viral and fans waited for Lizzo to clap back, and after she thanked her fans for supporting her while onstage accepting her award on August 28, she dove in.

"And now, to the [ ] that got something to say about me in the press...You know what? I'm not gonna say nothing." She continued, "They be like, Lizzo, why don't you clap back? Why don't you clap back?" Then she added, "'Cause [ ] I'm winning, [ ]. Big [ ] is winning!" She left with one final piece of advice: "Best revenge is your paper, [ ]!"

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Lizzo -

Cardi B soon came to her defense and tweeted, "When you stand up for yourself they claim your [sic] problematic and sensitive. When you don’t they tear you apart until you crying like this. Whether you skinny, big, plastic, they going to always try to put their insecurities on you. Remember these are nerds looking at the popular table."  Lizzo said in a later video, "I really think that people are just mad to see a fat, Black woman that makes pop music and is happy." She also tweeted, "Loving yourself in a world that don’t love u back takes an incredible amount of self awareness and a bulls[ ]detector that can see through [ ] backwards societal standards…"

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The 'Thor' actor posted a photo on May 25 of himself wearing shorts and a muscle tee alongside his son, who was wearing a Superman cape, and jokingly wrote in the caption: "Lucky I have two other kids." But attention was drawn away from the funny remark when his brother, Luke Hemsworth, entered the comments: "Bro?! You’ve been skipping leg days again?!" Luke wrote, which garnered over 70,500 likes. He then tagged Chris’ personal trainer and writing, “Are those @zocobodypro’s pins?” Fans quickly chimed in as they noticed the difference between Chris' massive triceps and his relatively slim calves, and they were merciless. 

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After an unedited photo of Khloé appeared online, the Kardashian team took legal action to remove it. Of the seemingly unnecessary ordeal, Khloé explained on Instagram that she has struggled with body image her whole life and that, after working so hard on herself, she deserves the right to remove unflattering photos. "In truth, the pressure, constant ridicule and judgment my entire life to be perfect and to meet other's standards of how I should look has been too much to bear," she wrote, adding examples of people calling her the "fat sister" and accusing her of weight loss surgery. She added that she will continue to edit her photos as she pleases.

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Charlie Puth -

After shirtless paparazzi photos were released online, people commented that the singer didn't look "fit." Puth wasn't going to stand for it. "Hey just a very quick reminder that it’s not cool to body shame anyone," he tweeted. "Not entirely sure what the purpose of it is. Sorry I don’t have an 8 pack like damn......"

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Kate Winslet was only 22 years old when the multi-Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Titanic' came out in 1997. The film was an instant classic and many of the scenes have been iconic for decades. However, one hotly-debated plot hole generated waves of body shaming against the young Winslet. In the heartbreaking final scene Jack lets go of the floating door they're using as a life raft so that Rose might survive, but fans always wondered, wasn't there enough room for both of them? Tabloids and toxic fans joked that Winslet's excessive weight was the reason. “Apparently I was too fat,” Winslet said during an interview on the 'Happy Sad Confused' podcast. “Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even [ ] fat.” 

As a woman in her forties, Winslet looks back with empathy at her younger self, struggling with her changing body and newfound fame. If she could go back and address the journalists criticizing her, she would say, "Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is." Winslet went on to describe the media's treatment of her as bullying, and even "borderline abusive.”

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Kate Winslet slammed the media's "straight-up cruel" fixation on her weight in a new interview with The Guardian, describing the impact it had on her self-esteem as a young actress. "It was almost laughable how shocking, how critical, how straight-up cruel tabloid journalists were to me," she said. "I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well was! They would comment on my size, they'd estimate what I weighed, they'd print the supposed diet I was on. It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read."

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Kate Winslet - The British actress has opened up about being body-shamed during auditions.

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Kelly Clarkson and Serena Williams spoke about body positivity and their experiences with body shaming during the tennis star's appearance on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show.' Williams praised Clarkson for her response to UK journalist Katie Hopkins' criticism of her weight in 2015. "I was like, 'Look, I ain't got time for you over the pond,'" Clarkson told Williams. "I got enough people hating on me over here!" 

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Kelly Clarkson - The singer has struggled with depression and eating disorders, and she told Williams that the biggest problem she has with body-shamers is that "other women and other little girls are looking out there and they’re bigger than me and they’re going, ‘If they think she's this way, then what does the world think of me?’" Clarkson said. 

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Serena Williams - The tennis champion has also been a big advocate for body positivity, especially after receiving comments about her figure being "built like a man."

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Beyoncé - Even Queen Bey is at risk of body shaming. The singer was fat-shamed on Twitter by trolls.

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The 'Batman & Robin' actress, over two decades after the film was released, spoke out about the body shaming she was subject to at the time. "[The media] would make fun of my body when I was younger," she told the Guardian. "It was hurtful, but I knew they were wrong. I wasn't confused. I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone's body shape, that doesn't seem like the right thing to be doing to a human."

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Mariah Carey - The pop icon was said to be the target of body-shaming comments made by Whoopi Goldberg, who remarked that one of the singer's music videos took place "20 bodies ago," instead of saying "20 years ago."

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Lizzo -

Former 'The Biggest Loser' trainer Jillian Michaels faced backlash over remarks she made about Lizzo on 'AM to DM.' "Why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Why aren't we celebrating her music? 'Cause it isn't going to be awesome if she gets diabetes," said Michaels. "There's never a moment when I'm like, 'I'm so glad she's overweight.' Why do I even care? Why is it my job to care about her weight?"

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Jason Momoa - After being spotted on vacation, the actor was body-shamed for not keeping the top form he had on 'Aquaman.'

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Lady Gaga - Gaga was body-shamed after her Super Bowl performance in 2017. She took to Instagram to clapback at haters.

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Emma Stone - The Hollywood star has been told a lot of nasty things, from "eat a sandwich" to "she looks sick."

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Leonardo DiCaprio - In 2014, the Hollywood star was body-shamed for his "dad bod" after being spotted on vacation with his top off.

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Demi Lovato - The singer has been body-shamed many times, but Lovato is proud of their thick thighs!

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Jennifer Lopez - When she started her career as a dancer, JLo was told to lose weight and that she needed to look thinner.

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Kim Kardashian has been body-shamed many times, including for her post-pregnancy weight. But she has said how proud she is of her body.

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Jennifer Aniston - Fed up about the constant rumors of her being pregnant, the 'Friends' star wrote a piece setting the record straight.

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Vin Diesel - In 2015, the actor was spotted on a balcony with his top off, and his distended stomach sparked all sorts of negative comments online.

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Gabourey Sidibe - After being criticized during the 2014 Golden Globes, the actress hilariously clapped back at haters on Twitter: "To people making mean comments about my GG pics, I mos def cried about it on that private jet on my way to my dream job last night."

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Ben Affleck - In 2018, the actor was body shamed in a New Yorker piece. His "gut pooching outward," among other things, were mentioned in regards to his physique.

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Jonah Hill - Although the actor has now lost a lot of weight, for years he was fat-shamed.

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Amy Schumer - She once clapped back at haters on Twitter saying "I am a size 6 and have no plans of changing. This is it. Stay on or get off. Kisses!"

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Melissa McCarthy - The actress was once called "tractor-sized" by a film critic.

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Khloé Kardashian - She's been called both "too fat" and "too skinny" by critics.

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Rob Kardashian - Rob's weight change was quite evident, and he's been consequently shamed for it. He suffers from diabetes and has been battling depression for some time.

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Jessica Simpson - Simpson was body-shamed for the amount of weight she gained during pregnancy.

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Tyra Banks - After being body-shamed by a tabloid, Banks clapped back on her TV show.

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Ashley Graham - An Instagram user once called the model's thighs "cellulite city."

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Gigi Hadid - The model has been criticized for her weight fluctuation. Hadid suffers from Hashimoto’s disease, which affects her weight.

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Jennifer Lawrence - Lawrence has a few words for body shamers: "If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet,' I'm like, 'You can go [ ]yourself.'"

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Hilary Duff - The actress slammed down body shamers with a powerful Instagram post about her body.

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Chloë Grace Moretz - The actress recalls crying after her male co-star told her he would never date her in real life because she was too big for him. She was just 15 at the time.

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Ruby Rose - The 'Batwoman' star once was told she was too skinny and "needed to eat a burger." She took to Instagram to clap back at haters.

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Sasha Pieterse - The 'Pretty Little Liars' star replied to body shamers on Instagram with an image saying "I am currently under construction...thank you for your patience."

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Kristen Bell -

The actress was criticized because of her post-pregnancy weight.

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