Pink Talks Body-Shaming: 'I Look F--king Awesome'

Known for her outspoken attitude and powerhouse vocals, Pink has forever served as an inspiration to countless people across the globe. Recently, while doing an interview with Billboard, she shared some insights on the trend of body insecurity women go through as she herself was in that phase once.

During the interview, she was shown some of her old music videos, starting with her 2000 single "There You Go”. The video is still regarded as an iconic piece where Pink flew her motorcycle into an ex’s apartment window. "I think this is the prettiest I've ever looked, and will ever look," she said. "I’d just started riding motorcycles. I almost crashed 85 times."

She went on to share she had smoked a ton weed during the shoot and was hardly able to keep her eyes open. The director of the music video, Dave Meyers, had to continuously ask her to stop because eyes were barely open during close-up takes.

The next music video of hers in line was the 2013 video for "Just Give Me a Reason." She has vivid memories of the video, where she remembers going to a fitting, but riddled with the thought that she was too fat to wear anything that showed off her figure. But now, looking back, she found herself too thin.

"That's what we do to ourselves, and we should stop it," she said. "And now I'm almost 150 pounds, and I look f--king awesome."

Pink has always advocated the importance of embracing body positivity- a life lesson she wants her daughter to swear by too. At 2017’s VMA, while receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, she remembered how her daughter had shared her insecurity over her looks as she thought that she was "the ugliest girl I know" who looks "like a boy with long hair."

Not wanting her little girl to grow with such a negative mindset, she made a Powerpoint presentation full of androgynous rock stars and artists and showed it to her. She also explained to her daughter that people used to make fun of her as she looked “like a boy or I’m too masculine or I have too many opinions, my body is too strong."

"And I said to her, ‘Do you see me growing my hair?’ She said, ‘No, mama.’ I said, ‘Do you see me changing my body?’ ‘No, mama.’ ‘Do you see me changing the way I present myself to the world?’ ‘No, mama.’ ‘Do you see me selling out arenas all over the world?’ ‘Yes, Mama.’ ‘OK! So, baby girl. We don’t change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl. And we help other people to change so they can see more kinds of beauty," Pink had said.