Camila Cabello Vents About Paparazzi & Body Image During Miami Trip

Singer Camila Cabello posted a lengthy screed about her relationship with paparazzi reporters on Twitter. It’s worth reading in full to see the impact that relentlessly following, photographing and critiquing celebrities can have real effects on their self-esteem. Cabello wrote this during a Miami vacation and added that when she signs into a particular beach club, “paps know and get me in my bikini and every time I’ve felt super vulnerable and unprepared.”

Cabello said that when critical comments about her body would flood in with the photos, she “reminded myself when it impacted my self-esteem that I was thinking the culture’s thoughts and not my own.” She also mentioned factors that have distorted our view of women’s bodies, including “Photoshop, restrictive eating, over-exercising, and choosing angles that make our bodies look different than how they are in the moment and in their natural form.”

The Havana singer said the constant presence of paparazzi ruined most of her beach trips, because, “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.”

Cabello concluded that she is still “not at the point in my journey where I can not give a f––k. Intellectually, I know what I look like doesn’t determine how happy, healthy, sexy I am. Emotionally, the messaging I get from our world is loud in my own head.” Hopefully, this message will give the singer a break she needs from being constantly photographed. Celebrities attend plenty of red carpets and events where they can be photographed extensively, and no one should be pursued as aggressively as the most popular musicians and actors often are.