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Muni Long at 2025 ESSENCE Fest

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Key Takeaways:

• Muni Long used Instagram Live to reply to fan hypothesis about her look.
• She confirmed her weight achieve is from having fun with life, not a medical subject or being pregnant.
• Her response joins a bigger dialog about physique picture and public scrutiny in music.

No, Muni Long just isn’t pregnant or coping with lupus flare-ups. She’s simply been consuming actually good. On Monday (July 28) night time, the “Hrs & Hrs” singer responded to the current feedback surrounding her weight achieve.

During an Instagram Live, she emphasised that, identical to anybody else, celebrities’ weights “go up and down.” Long mentioned, “The difference between me and you is I don’t give a damn what y’all think about me. As long as I’m alive and I’m breathing. I got family that loves me. I’m healthy, I’m happy.”

“Right now, I’m fat. I’m fluffy. I enjoy it,” the Grammy Award winner added, noting that she at the moment weighs round 145 kilos. “I just think it’s crazy how people will be like, ‘Oh my God, she looks so fat. She’s pregnant.’”

The endless dialog round weight is, sadly, one thing celebrities appear destined to by no means escape. Earlier this month, Lizzo shared before-and-after photos of her weight reduction journey after being accused of taking Ozempic, an anti-diabetic treatment recognized for curbing weight achieve.

Similarly, final yr, Ice Spice was kind of pressured into sharing her gym routine after followers seen she’d slimmed down.

Elsewhere throughout her Instagram Live, Long made it clear that followers don’t have any enterprise attempting to diagnose her. “I’ve been eating steak and shrimp, and lobster towers and cake, all types of s**t,” she mentioned. “Y’all [are] so f**king nosy, entitled and rude.”

Music-wise, the Revenge songstress carried out at GloRilla’s first annual Glo Bash on Saturday (July 26). In October, she’s scheduled to assist Brandy and Monica throughout their joint “The Boy Is Mine Tour,” which can run by way of December.