Ariana Grande says she used Botox and filler in the past to ‘hide’
Ariana Grande has opened up about her use of Botox and lip filler, which she said she “hid behind”.
The singer-songwriter, 30, said she stopped using the cosmetics in 2018 during a makeup tutorial video for Vogue.
She used makeup as a “disguise” over the years, she said, especially as she started her career “so young”.
“Full transparency… I’ve had a tonne of lip filler over the years and Botox,” she said, before appearing emotional.
“For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me and now I feel like maybe it’s not, since I stopped getting fillers and Botox.
“And maybe I’ll start getting it again one day, I don’t know, to each their own – whatever makes you feel beautiful I do support.”
The 7 Rings singer said she stopped in 2018 because it felt “so much… I just felt like hiding”.
“I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more, and I just think ageing can be such a beautiful thing,” she added.
“Might I get a facelift in 10 years? I might, yeah, but these are just thoughts I feel we should be able to discuss.”
Ariana Grande said she used beauty to hide. Pic: AP
Reflecting back, she said her view on beauty has “changed so much” since she was a teenager.
“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not,” she said.
“But, when you’re 17, you don’t know that yet.”
It’s not the first time Grande has spoken out on appearances.
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Earlier this year, she said in a TikTok video people should be “gentler and less comfortable” about commenting on how other people’s bodies look.
“If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is, healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, non-sexy… we just should really work towards not doing that as much,” she said.
“There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don’t like, that I think we should help each other work towards… we should aim toward being safer, and keeping each other safer.”
She also talked about her own vulnerability, adding: “I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my [healthy] but that in fact wasn’t my [healthy].”
A “tentative” deal has been reached to end a long-running strike by writers in Hollywood.
A statement from the WGA (Writers Guild of America) said: “We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language.
“We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional-with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership.”
The three-year contract agreement – settled on after five days of renewed talks by negotiators WGA and the AMPTP – must be approved by the guild’s board and members before the strike officially ends.
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The terms of the deal were not immediately announced.
The statement added: “To be clear, no one is to return to work until specifically authorized to by the Guild.
“We are still on strike until then. But we are, as of today, suspending WGA picketing. Instead, if you are able, we encourage you to join the SAG-AFTRA picket lines this week.”
The agreement comes just five days before the strike would have become the longest in the guild’s history, and the longest Hollywood strike in decades.
About 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America walked off the job on 2 May over issues of pay, the size of writing staffs on shows and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of scripts.
SAG-AFTRA actors during their ongoing strike, in Los Angeles (file pic)
In July, the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union started its own walkout which is yet to be resolved.
It said in a statement: “SAG-AFTRA congratulates the WGA on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP after 146 days of incredible strength, resiliency and solidarity on the picket lines.
While we look forward to reviewing the WGA and AMPTP’s tentative agreement, we remain committed to achieving the necessary terms for our members.
“We remain on strike in our TV/Theatrical contract and continue to urge the studio and streamer CEOs and the AMPTP to return to the table and make the fair deal that our members deserve and demand.”
A sharp rise in migrants crossing the US border from Mexico has pushed a Texas city to “breaking point”, its mayor has warned.
With more than 2,000 people a day seeking asylum, services in El Paso have been overwhelmed, leaving the authorities struggling to cope.
The influx has also hit the Texas border city of Eagle Pass, where more than 8,000 migrants arrived this week, leading authorities to declare an emergency.
There has been a surge in arrivals at the US border. Pic: AP
After a dip in illegal crossings following new asylum restrictions in May, the large number of recent arrivals has sparked a fresh wave of political attacks on US President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 election.
It comes as Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman questioned whether international migration rules designed more than a century ago are “fit for purpose“ ahead of a major speech in the US.
The UK has been dealling with its own migrant issues, with people crossing in small boats from France, while southern Italy has also seen arrivals from North Africa.
While just six weeks ago, about 350 to 400 people were crossing into El Paso per day, this has recently surged to 2,000 or more.
Mayor Oscar Leeser told a news conference: “The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come to… a breaking point right now.”
He has chartered buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago and Denver.
Republican governors in Texas and Florida have been criticised for sending migrants to cities seen as liberal, such as New York and Sacramento.
But Mr Leeser, a Democrat, said all of the migrants on the El Paso buses were going voluntarily to the cities of their choice.
He said: “I think it’s really important to note that we have a broken immigration system.
“It’s the same thing over and over again.”
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In August, border patrol officers made 181,509 arrests on the Mexican frontier, up 37% from July, according to latest figures.
People in families with children fuelled the increase, with 93,999 arrests – the highest on record – up from 60,454 in July and 31,487 in June.
Troy Miller, acting US Customs and Border Protection chief, said: “Our operational tempo along the border has increased in response to increased encounters, and we remain squarely focused on our broader security mission and enforcing US immigration laws.”
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