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Buzzfeed wrote:Selena has long been open about her health, revealing back in 2015 that she had to undergo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lupus.


In 2017, Selena had a kidney transplant after suffering organ damage as a result of the autoimmune disease. A few years later, she opened up further about the pain that lupus has caused her in her 2022 documentary, My Mind & Me.


And over these years, Selena has also been candid about how her lupus medication causes weight gain.

Selena faced heaps of body-shaming comments back in 2018 after she was photographed by paparazzi out on the beach in a bikini.


In response to people who said she looked “fat,” Selena ended up explaining, “I have Lupus and deal with kidney issues and high blood pressure, so I deal with a lot of health issues. For me that's when I really started noticing more of the body image stuff.”


“It’s the medication I have to take for the rest of my life,” she added. “It depends on the month, to be honest. I really noticed when people started attacking me for that.”


Now, sadly for Selena, she’s once again been forced to explain her change in physical appearance after receiving another heap of critical comments.

Selena went live on TikTok this week to address the numerous comments she’d read about her weight gain, and explained — yet again — that this is because of her illness.

The singer began by noting that when she’s on her lupus medication, she tends to “hold a lot of water weight.”

“My medications are important and I believe they are what helps me,” she went on, before pausing and looking super emotional. “Not a model, never will be,” she said.