Bebe Rexha bashed TikTok’s algorithm for suggesting that users search for results about her weight.
“Seeing that search bar is so upsetting,” Rexha tweeted Sunday along with a screenshot of the video-sharing app offering “bebe rexha weight” as a search option.
“I’m not mad cause it’s true. I did gain weight,” she admitted. “But it just sucks.”
The “In the Name of Love” singer, 33, shared in a separate tweet that she has “always struggled” with her body, joking, “A bitch likes to eat.”
When a fan tweeted that she should not care about what other people think and only do what makes her happy, Rexha responded, “I’m working on myself everyday. Just discouraged a bit right now.”
Another fan pointed out that a weight-loss ad on Pornhub was using Photoshopped images of Rexha’s body to show before-and-after results.
“That’s just messed up,” the “I’m Good (Blue)” performer replied.
Still, Rexha expressed how grateful she is for her fans who do not judge her based on her appearance.
“Thank you to all the people who love me no matter what,” she wrote.
TikTok’s search suggestions are based on trending topics. The platform did not immediately respond to Pvnew’s request for comment.
Rexha has been outspoken about her struggles with body image and her ability to love herself.
In December 2021, she shared on TikTok that she was at her heaviest weight after indulging over the holidays.
“I weighed myself just now and I don’t feel comfortable sharing the weight ’cause I feel embarrassed,” Rexha, whose real name is Bleta Rexha, said through tears. “I just feel disgusting, you know, like in my own body.”
The Grammy winner added that she had not been posting as much content on social media because she was not feeling confident.
“I don’t feel good in my skin, and when I don’t feel good, I don’t want to post, and that’s really honestly the reason I haven’t been posting in the last year or so as much as I used to,” she confessed.
But Rexha has also preached body positivity and encourages her followers to love themselves no matter their shape or size.
That June, she posted a TikTok video of herself dressed in sexy lingerie and asked viewers to “normalize” women weighing 165 pounds. And in 2019, she proudly flaunted her stretch marks while rocking a tiny bikini in an Instagram photo.
In November 2020, Rexha praised her natural curves after shutting down speculation that she had surgery on her body when unflattering paparazzi photos circulated of her galavanting on a beach in a one-piece swimsuit.
“I want to show you what I really look like. Yes, I got thighs, I got an ass,” she said in the video at the time. “It’s just really hard because I find it hard to love myself sometimes and when you see yourself looking like s—t it’s like, yes, I got stretch marks, I got cellulite, all of the above. But I don’t do surgery. I’ve never touched my body, never done lipo.”
Rexha added, “I’m trying to be healthy and respect what God gave me and I like to eat and I also take medicine that makes it really hard for me to lose weight. I’m thick, I’m a thick girl, I’ll take it. That’s how I was born. I always had a small waist and big [thighs] even when I was a little girl. But that’s not what I look like.”
The songwriter has also used her platform to call for change, slamming fashion designers who claimed that her size-eight figure was “too big” to dress for the 2019 Grammys.
