Lady Gaga Shuts Down Body Shamers After Super Bowl Performance

Stephanie Marcus
Updated

This is why we can’t have nice things.

After putting on ashow-stopping 13-minute performanceat the Super Bowl on Sunday night,Lady Gagais speaking out againstthe cruel body shamersout there who dared to critique her abs rather than her set.

On Tuesday night,Gaga took to Instagramwhere she posted a photo of herself from the halftime show wearing sparkly hotpants and a cropped shirt that resembled shoulder pads worn by football players.

“I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I’m proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too,” she captioned the photo. “No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don’t need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed.”

“Be you, and be relentlessly you,” she added. “That’s the stuff of champions. Thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, Gaga”

I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don't need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. Be you, and be relentlessly you. That's the stuff of champions. thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, gaga

A photo posted by xoxo, Joanne (@ladygaga) on Feb 7, 2017 at 8:38pm PST

Of course, this is hardly the first time the singer, who has beenopen about her struggle with eating disorders in the past, has dealt with body shamers. After a performance on her ArtRave tour in 2014,Gaga hit back at critics who made comments about her weightby Instagraming a black-and-white glamour shot, which she captioned, “Curvy and Proud,” along with an emoji of a pig.

Curvy and Proud 🐖

A photo posted by xoxo, Joanne (@ladygaga) on Jul 21, 2014 at 4:09pm PDT