Ariana Grande has opened up in an emotional video about why she stopped getting filler and Botox treatments in 2018.
Speaking on the Vogue Beauty Secrets YouTube series, the thank u, next singer got candid about why she turned to cosmetic treatments in the first place, and how she's now embracing ageing.
Talking viewers through her skincare and makeup routine, the star decided to be transparent about her appearance, saying, "As a beauty person, as I do my lips, I've had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox".
"I stopped in 2018 because I just felt so too much. I just felt like hiding, you know?" she added, becoming emotional. Now 30, the star would have been 24 and 25 when she was getting the treatments.
She noted that, due to starting off in the entertainment industry at a young age, her relationship to beauty has shifted over the years. She continued: "Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, especially when people have things to say about your appearance and stuff at a young age, it's really hard to know what’s worth hearing and not.
"When you're 17, you don’t know that yet."
Grande said that in the past she had used beauty "as a disguise, or as something to hide behind", whether that was "more and more and more hair" or "thicker eyeliner", things which she said she still has an appreciation for but now does not like "that being the intention behind it anymore".
Speaking about her experience of 'tweakments' like filler and Botox, she said, "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".
She added that she might go back to those procedures again in the future, saying, "to each their own, whatever makes you feel beautiful, I do support [it]".
"But I know for me, I was just like, 'Oh! I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines. I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper, and I laugh more and more.’
"And I just think aging is such a—it can be such a beautiful thing.
"Now, might I get a facelift in 10 years? Might, yeah! But these are just thoughts that I feel like we should be able to discuss if we’re sitting here, talking about beauty secrets. F*ck it, let’s lay it all out there."
