Camila Cabello

Musician and actress Camila Cabello took to Instagram to share her struggles with body image.

"I've worn bikinis that were to small and paid no mind to how I looked, then saw pictures online and comments and been so upset," she wrote in a letter on Instagram on Saturday. She explained that being constantly photographed by paparazzi -- and having her body scrutinized -- made her feel "super vulnerable and unprepared." "I tried to pretend they weren't there but I couldn't," she said." Camila Cabello opens up about body image struggles on InstagramSinger and actress Camila Cabello opened up about her personal challenges with her self-esteem and body image on Instagram. Musician and actress Camila Cabello took to Instagram to share her struggles with body image.

Camila Cabello detailed her struggles with body image and slammed paparazzi via Instagram after getting photographed at the beach in Miami.

“You are beautiful inside and out🥰.” “I reminded myself when it impacted my self esteem that I was thinking the culture’s thoughts and not my own,” she continued. She added, “I’ve never had a worse time at the beach.

On Saturday, April 2, Camila Cabello shared a long Instagram post about how the constant paparazzi snaps of her in bikinis has been exhausting her and ...

“I wanted to talk about this because we see pictures of women and praise them for looking good, for looking fit or ‘healthy,’” Cabello continued. Though Cabello tries her best to set those comments aside, it's easy to get caught up in the unrealistic cultural “image of what a ‘healthy’ woman’s body looks like that is completely not real for a lot of women.” Cabello's most recent run-in with the celebrity photographers happened at a beach in Miami on Saturday, April 2, and she was not happy with the images.

Camila Cabello wrote on Instagram that she had been photographed by paparazzi at a beach club in Miami, which she said made her feel "so self conscious."

“I felt the emptiness and sadness of our culture’s thoughts that became my thoughts,” she wrote. In a TikTok video last summer, the singer talked about feeling uncertain about her physical appearance but came to the conclusion that “being at war with your body is so last season.” And I hope you don’t either.” “I tried to pretend they weren’t there but I couldn’t and I held my breath from my sun chair to the ocean. “Somehow when I check in paps know and get me in my bikini and every time I’ve felt super vulnerable and unprepared,” she wrote. To begin the message, she said that every single time she goes to a particular, unnamed beach club in Miami, she gets photographed by the paparazzi.

"Intellectually, I know what I look like doesn't determine how healthy, happy or sexy I am," the singer says after a run-in with the paparazzi at the beach.

Camila Cabello is opening up about her struggles with body image, spurred on by a painful experience with paparazzi at a beach club in Miami.

Who am I trying to look attractive for and am I even attractive to myself if I can't let loose and relax and have fun and be playful on a beautiful day at the beach?”She concluded, “I'm not yet at the point in my journey where I can not give a fuck. I looked at a group of toddlers giggling with excitement at waves knocking them over no sunglasses, no jewelry, no self-consciousness, just the innocence of children, which is the feeling I have always gone into nature for.”Cabello shared that she wanted to talk about the experience to combat the messaging women receive about their bodies and what is celebrated by society. “I held my core so tight my ribs 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 into nature. I tried to pretend they weren't there, but I couldn't and I held my breath from my sun chair to the ocean. Camila Cabello is opening up about her ongoing struggles with body image following a painful experience with the paparazzi at a beach club in Miami. On April 2, the singer shared a lengthy message on Instagram about a recurring pattern of events involving paparazzi that culminated in her running away to hide from the cameras.“Every time I've gone to this beach club in Miami, I get papped—somehow when I check in paps no and get me in my bikini, and every time I've felt super vulnerable and unprepared—I've worn bikinis that were so too small and paid no mind to how I looked, then saw pictures online and comments and been so upset,” she began. “I reminded myself when it impacted my self-esteem, that I was thinking the culture's thoughts and not my own.

The singer took to Instagram to post her thoughts, explaining that every time she checks into a beach club in Miami she is photographed by paparazzi and, while ...

“I knew I looked ‘good’ in the pictures and thought I would feel accomplished and yet I’ve never had a worse time at the beach,” she continued. Ironically, all the therapy, all the inner work, is to try and get back to feeling like seven-year-old me at the beach. I couldn’t let go and relax and do what we’re meant to do when we go out in nature.