Lorde Reflects on Body Image Struggles & Eating Improperly ‘For Weeks' Ahead of the 2021 Met Gala
This year's Met Gala was a very different experience for Lorde than the last time she attended the event in 2021.
In a vulnerable voice note sent to fans Tuesday night (May 6), the pop star opened up about having overcome her issues with body image in the four years since she last walked the Metropolitan Museum of Art red carpet, revealing that last time she was there, she'd unhealthily restricted her eating for weeks in preparation.
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'I was so hungry,' she recalled of the 2021 gala, the theme of which was 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.' 'I didn't eat properly for weeks thinking about my little tummy on that carpet.'
This year, Lorde attended once again, sporting a chic slate Thom Browne look that matched the 2025 theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.' Returning to the Met four years later, the singer said it was 'moving' to be back in the same place with an entirely new mindset regarding her body.
'I was there last night fully in myself, and I didn't have to not eat, I didn't have to go to the gym a million times,' she told her fans. 'I was just fully in myself. Quite beautiful.'
Lorde has slowly been sharing more and more about her struggles with eating and body image in the lead-up to her new album Virgin, which arrives June 27. On lead single 'What Was That,' released in April, she sings, 'I wear smoke like a wedding veil/ Make a meal I won't eat.'
In a recent interview with Document Journal, the New Zealand native elaborated on the lyric: 'I had made my body very small, because I thought that that was what you did as a woman and a woman on display … I thought, 'I'm small. This will communicate to people that I'm taking my position seriously.''
Now, Lorde says she feels fully 'embodied,' meaning this year's Met — which took place one day prior to her voice note — was a much better experience. 'It was definitely my favorite Met,' she said in her message before remarking, 'It's really a reality check of where you're at in relation to, you know, your own public image and how you feel in your body, how you feel among your peers and how you feel in culture and all that sort of stuff.'
One moment from Monday night (May 5) that did make her 'so cringed out' at herself, though, was when she commented that her dress was an 'Easter egg' in an interview with Vogue correspondent Emma Chamberlain, leading fans to believe the singer was teasing something musical through her attire. 'More will be revealed,' she'd added during the red-carpet chat. 'To me it really represents where I'm at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman, kind of vibe.'
But in her voice note, Lorde clarified, 'Just as it was leaving my mouth, I was like, 'What are you talking about? No, it's not [an Easter egg]. The language of Easter eggs, I love it as a concept … [but] for what I was referring to, it was not my vibe,' she said. 'Please accept me feeling like a loser, I'm sure you don't care at all.'
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