Camila Cabello shared a note on social media about how it feels to be stalked by the paparazzi during her personal time on the beach.
As paparazzi snaps of the bikini-clad singer circulated around the internet on Saturday (April 2), she took a moment to address what she’s going through when she just wants to enjoy some time in nature.
“Every time I go to this beach club in Miami I get screwed — kinda knowing dads and putting myself in my bikini, and every time I’ve felt super vulnerable and unprepared,” wrote Cabello, of his new album Familia will be released on April 8th. “I was wearing bikinis that were too small and not caring about how I looked then I saw pics online and comments and was so upset.”
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“When it affected my self-esteem, I reminded myself that I was thinking the culture’s thoughts and not my own. A culture so accustomed to an image of a “healthy” woman’s body that for many women it’s completely unreal. Photoshop, restrictive eating, overtraining, and choosing angles that make our body look different than it is in the moment and in its natural form, when we take deep breaths, when we eat a meal, when we allow waves to pound us around,” she said.
“I remember it, I listen to podcasts about intuitive eating, I follow women who accept their cellulite, stretch marks, tummies, bloating, weight fluctuations… and yet I’m a single woman in my 20s, in the middle of a… lots of commercials and I want to feel ‘good looking,'” Cabello admitted.
“Today I got a new bikini, a whole F—in a cute outfit, put on lip gloss and didn’t eat anything too heavy before going to OCEAN because I knew it was basically going to be a whole photo shoot,” Cabello wrote . “I held my core so tight my abs ached and I wasn’t breathing and barely smiling and was so aware the whole time of where the paps were that I couldn’t let go and relax and do what we were supposed to do when.” we go out into nature. I tried to pretend they weren’t there but I couldn’t and held my breath from my sun lounger in the sea.”
The “Bam Bam” singer then described seeing self-confident kids playing on the beach, noting that her goal was to “feel like a 7-year-old self on the beach again” — “happy, goofy, breathing.” , pretend to be a mermaid, FREE.”
“I knew I looked ‘good’ in the pictures and thought I felt complete, yet I’ve never had a worse time at the beach,” Cabello said.
“I’m not at the point in my journey where I can’t commit yet,” she added.
Cabello’s forthcoming 12-track album, Familia, features collaborations with Ed Sheeran (“Bam Bam”), Willow (“Psychofreak”), Maria Becerra (“Hasta Los Dientes”) and Yotuel (“Lola”).
See her full note below.
— camila (@Camila_Cabello) April 2, 2022