Ariana Grande on Her Health: Everything She's Said

Ariana Grande

Addressed body comments in April 2023 and said her “healthiest looking” body was actually her unhealthiest.
Spoke again in 2024, calling herself a “specimen” and asking people to stop commenting on appearances.
Denied plastic surgery claims in a 2024 lie detector test and said she stopped fillers and Botox years ago.
Follows a vegan lifestyle, focuses on mental health, and rejects weight loss drug speculation.

Ariana Grande has addressed public commentary about her body multiple times since 2023. Every statement on this page comes directly from her own words in TikTok videos, press interviews, and a 2024 Vanity Fair lie detector test. This article does not speculate. It reports what Grande has confirmed, in her own voice, across named sources.

In April 2023, Grande posted a three-minute TikTok directly addressing body commentary
She said the body fans called “healthy” was actually her unhealthiest, she was on antidepressants and drinking heavily
In December 2024, she teared up on Oui Oui Baguette, saying she has been a “specimen in a petri dish” since age 16
In October 2024, she took a lie detector test for Vanity Fair and denied a nose job, breast augmentation, facelift, fox eye lift, chin implant, and BBL the polygraph confirmed no deception on each

What Ariana Grande Actually Said The April 2023 TikTok

Grande posted a rare three-minute video to TikTok in April 2023, addressing fans directly. She opened by saying she does not do this often and is “not good at it.” The video caption read: “You’ve been talking about it for a decade or longer so I’d like to join in this time.”

Her first point was that the body fans were using as a “healthy” benchmark was not healthy for her. “The body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” she said. She explained she was “on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life.”

Her second point was about how people talk about bodies in general. “I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies, no matter what,” she said. She added that even well-intentioned comments can cause harm and that someone may already be working on their health privately.

Her third point was a message of kindness directed at her fans. “You’re beautiful no matter what phase you’re in,” she told them. “No matter what weight, no matter how you like to do your makeup these days, no matter what cosmetic procedures you’ve had or not.”

Ariana Grande in Her Own Words December 2024

Grande addressed the topic again in December 2024 during the Wicked press tour. On the web series Oui Oui Baguette, she said she has been “a specimen in a petri dish since I was 16 or 17” and has “heard every version of what’s wrong with me.” She teared up during the exchange, per E! News reporting.

In a separate November 2024 interview, she said: “It’s hard to protect yourself from that noise, and I think it’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on.” She told the interviewer that society has “a comfortability we shouldn’t have at all” when it comes to commenting on people’s appearances.

In February 2025, Grande appeared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. She said record labels and studios should make therapy “part of the contract” for artists whose careers change their lives at scale because “to be an artist, you are a vulnerable person with your heart on your sleeve.”

The Vanity Fair Lie Detector Test: What She Confirmed and Denied

In October 2024, Ariana Grande sat for Vanity Fair’s lie detector test alongside Wicked co star Cynthia Erivo. Erivo asked Grande directly if she had gotten her nose done. “No,” Grande replied the polygraph confirmed she was telling the truth. Grande denied having a nose job, a breast augmentation, and a facelift. When the lie detector confirmed no deception, she said: “This is the best day of my life. Take that, you YouTube people.”

She also confirmed she has never had a fox eye lift, a chin implant, or a Brazilian butt lift. “I’ve had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped, like, four years ago,” she said.

She stopped fillers and Botox in 2018, per her own Vogue interview. She has said she hopes to see her “well earned cry lines and smile lines” deepen with age.

What She Has Said About Her Lifestyle

Grande has followed a plant based vegan diet since 2013, per multiple interviews over the years. She has spoken about prioritising low impact movement walking, Pilates, and yoga. She has mentioned a personal goal of 12,000 steps a day in past interviews, per PopSugar reporting.

She has explicitly denied using weight loss medications. No credible published source has produced evidence of semaglutide or GLP 1 medication use. Grande has asked fans and media to stop speculating calling the commentary “dangerous” in public statements.

Why This Matters: The Bigger Conversation

Grande is not the only public figure to have spoken about the harm of unsolicited body commentary. What makes her statements stand out is how directly she connects the conversation to mental health. She has been public about living with PTSD following the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, and about her anxiety.

She told ELLE that after the Manchester bombing, she experienced “really wild dizzy spells” and that her anxiety “had never been physical before.” She shared a brain scan image on social media to illustrate the physical impact of PTSD on her brain.

Grande has consistently said she is “constantly working” on her health. She has asked for space to do that without public commentary from both critics and well-wishers.

FAQ

Did Ariana Grande address her weight loss publicly?
Yes Ariana Grande addressed body commentary in an April 2023 TikTok, stating the body fans called “healthy” was actually her unhealthiest. She repeated this in December 2024 on Oui Oui Baguette, per E! News.

Did Ariana Grande use Ozempic or weight-loss drugs?
Ariana Grande has explicitly denied using weight loss medications. No credible source has produced evidence contradicting this. She has called speculation about her body “dangerous.”

Has Ariana Grande had plastic surgery?
Grande confirmed she used fillers and Botox but stopped in 2018, per her own Vogue interview. In a 2024 Vanity Fair lie detector test, she denied nose job, breast augmentation, facelift, fox eye lift, chin implant, and BBL the polygraph found no deception.

What did Ariana Grande say about body image in 2024?
Grande said in December 2024 that she has been a “specimen in a petri dish” since age 16, per E! News. She teared up while saying she has “heard every version of what’s wrong with me.”

What is Ariana Grande’s diet?
Grande has followed a plant-based vegan diet since 2013, per multiple interviews. She has cited walking, Pilates, and yoga as her primary forms of movement.