Brandy is done staying quiet about the ugly comments she's been getting online about her appearance, and she's using her platform to push back the right way. The Grammy winner took to Instagram with a message that hit way deeper than your average clapback.
In part, she wrote, "I've learned that it takes only a moment to form an opinion about someone's appearance, and a lifetime to understand what they've lived through." She continued, "Our words have weight. Our judgments have weight. Our kindness does too."
That's the kind of perspective that only comes from someone who's been in the public eye long enough to know how fast people jump to conclusions without knowing the full story. Brandy isn't asking for sympathy; she's asking for awareness. Before we type a comment about somebody's body, their weight, their face, their anything, we don't know what battles they're fighting behind closed doors.
This isn't the first time a celebrity has had to remind the internet that real people are on the other side of the screen, and it won't be the last. But hopefully messages like this one make people pause before they hit send.