19 Celebs Who Shut Down Body Shamers & Had Us Bowing at Their Feet

We all know and love Rihanna for her showstopping red carpet outfits and headline-making street style (not to mention her chart-topping hits), but even this fashion queen catches the heat from body shamers. A writer from Barstool Sports tried to come for RiRi in a harsh essay titled, "Is Rihanna Going To Make Being Fat the Hot New Trend." (So not okay!)

But the "Work" singer had the best clapback to this hater. She posted a meme on Instagram featuring rapper Gucci Mane's weight at two different time periods. The meme is captioned, "If you can't handle me at my 2007 Gucci Mane, you don't deserve me at my 2017 Gucci Mane." Enough said.

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Show us a woman who has to deal with as much near-constant body shaming as Amy Schumer does. She cannot leave her house (let alone celebrate her body) without getting enormous attention from terrible people who love to call her fat. You can tell she's getting fed up with it, but that just leads to amazing and amazingly genuine comebacks like the one in this Instagram caption. Kisses, Amy!

Gabourey Sidibe's response to haterz commenting on her 2014 Golden Globes look is nothing short of iconic at this point. Every word that comes out of this woman's mouth is inspiration in its purest form, and we love her. LOVE HER.

Khloe Kardashian says being called the "fat sister" has only made her stronger, but she's not about to lay down for comments from people claiming that she hasn't put in the work to get the body she has today. She's also not about strangers' comments about ANYONE'S body -- especially her brother Rob's.

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Jay Mohr is a supremely douchey and mostly un-funny comedian who used Alyssa Milano's post-baby bod as the basis of a joke in 2013. "It seems like she had a baby and said, 'I don't really give a sh*t' ... I read it on her gut," he said. Hilarious, right? Alyssa didn't think so, either. She tweeted this out after the incident, then followed up with an interview with Extra a few months later: "I think it's an interesting statement about where we are socially that people feel that they can sort of rip a woman's body apart after having a baby," she said. "... I don't think it's fair." Preeeach.

Chrissy Teigen has never shied away from calling out trolls, and that's a good thing because she kind of needs to do it a lot. Her responses have boiled down to pure sarcasm at this point, and it's a joy to watch -- Chrissy's never short on sass, and we love her for it.

Mindy Kaling does not shy away from talk about her body, and that in itself makes her an essential body-positive force in Hollywood. But then she goes and says stuff to the Guardian like this: "Insults about the way I look can't be the thing that harms me and my heart the most. It has to harm me the least. If I have a daughter, I'm going to tell her that. Far too many women are much more hurt by being called fat or ugly than they are by being called not smart, or not a leader. If someone told me that I was stupid or that I wasn't a leader, or that I wasn't witty or quick or perceptive, I'd be devastated. If someone told me that I had a gross body, I'd say, 'Well, it's bringing me a lot of happiness.' Like, I'm having a fine time of it. Having my priorities aligned like that has helped me have a happier life, I think." And we're left downright obsessed.

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It's kind of absurd to us that even someone who looks like Selena Gomez isn't spared from body shaming, but hey! We live in a disgusting society. What can we say. And anyway, Selena's response to gross and rude comments on her Instagram was to a) comment back with gems like "I could care less about what 'they' or you say I should look like" and "I don't need to do anything other than love myself, take care of my work, fans, family, and friends," and b) post ANOTHER Instagram -- this one with the caption "I love being happy with me yall." My God, we love this girl.

It's actually astounding how cruel the comments that were launched at Kelly Clarkson from Katie Hopkins, a professionally mean British media personality, were. Two tweets hit Kelly when she was six months postpartum, and they went something like: "Jesus, what happened to Kelly Clarkson? Did she eat all of her backing singers? Happily I have wide-screen," and "Darling, if you had a baby a year ago, that is not baby weight. It is fat. Quit calling it cute names to make yourself feel better." OMG. Kelly, for her part, talked to Heat and was basically like, "Katie who?" and "I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing." 

Demi's been pretty open about her history with eating disorders and self-harm, which you'd think would get people to lay off of her. But nah. It seems like she'll get "still fat" comments no matter where she is in life or with her body, but she's at peace with that. She's the first to admit it's been hard to get there, but where she is now is all that matters.

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Tyra Banks might be a bit off her rocker, but her tearful cry of "kiss my fat ass!" in 2009 spoke straight to thousands of women across the country. No, Tyra's ass isn't fat. But that's not really the point. The point is that Tyra's hot no matter what size her ass is, and so are you.

After learning that designers wouldn't dress them for their major movie premiere, some celebrities would deal with the resulting shaming in a calm, collected, and distant kind of way. SNL's Leslie Jones is not one of those celebrities. Aaaand it's hilarious. (Of course.)

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There is no feeling quite like the one you get from looking in the mirror or at a photo of yourself and thinking, "I am so beautiful to myself!" and Lena Dunham gets that. We love that she gets that. Because she puts her body on display so often for her work, she gets more than her fair share of comments about it, but that's just fine with her. As she explained to Jane Fonda in an interview for Paper in February 2016: "I think that it was important to me also to announce that 'this is what I look like. I don't have an interest in changing unless it's on my own terms.'"

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"I'm trying to figure my body out," Emma Stone told Us Weekly. "... I firmly believe that nothing really affects you or can really bother you if you don't already feel that way about yourself." She says she's trying to be better about not listening to mean comments and not shaming herself because she wants to set a better example for young girls. That kind of honesty is refreshing -- body positivity isn't always a walk in the park, and we love seeing celebs who understand that the way we do.

Serena Williams is an athlete (and a top-ranking one at that), so you'd think that would save her from people dragging her body. But of course it doesn't! That doesn't mean she'll sit around and listen to it, though: Serena told Good Morning America, "It's me, and I love me. I've learned to love me .... I don't have time to be brought down. I've got too many things to do. I have Grand Slams to win. I have people to inspire, and that's what I'm here for."

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Daisy Ridley, bless her soul, might be one of the kindest and most genuine celebrities in Hollywood today. After she was called out for being too thin (seriously) and not looking like a "real woman," she regrammed the offending photo with this amazing caption. When she realized her fans were going after the original troll, she deleted the regram and just posted the caption instead.

Sasha Pieterse got famous while she was on Pretty Little Liars, so it didn't escape everyone's attention when she started going through some weight fluctuations. She responded with the succinct and hilarious "currently under construction" to all the mean comments she got and gave her fans a bit of context -- plus a reminder that "YOU and YOUR health are what matters, not anyone else's opinions and assumptions of you."

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Melissa McCarthy has been doing God's work, preaching to us losers about body positivity and acceptance despite the absolutely horrendous cruelty that's been thrown her way. Her responses, though, are always perfect. In 2013 she told the New York Times, "I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs."

In 2014 Jennifer Lawrence admitted to Harper's Bazaar that one of the most emotionally damaging thing that's ever happened to her was when a Hollywood exec gave her a photo of herself almost naked and told her to use it as inspiration to lose weight. Now, though, she says, "I know it'll never happen to me again. If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet,' I'm like, 'You can go f**k yourself.'"

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