‘You can’t please everybody’: Celine Dion hits out at body-shamers

Celine Dion has hit back at body-shamers who have criticised her small frame, explaining in a recent interview “you can’t please everybody”.

For the past few months concerns have been swirling around the globe about the singer’s size with many fearing there was something wrong with the star. Now, addressing the comments, Celine has claimed their words haven’t affected her and her slimmer figure is natural .

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight recently, the 51-year-old said she’s always been very thin, but it’s just who she is. Keeping active and healthy with ballet and stretching, Celine explained it’s keeping her mind, body and soul happy, adding that she can take the criticism.

“If you don’t want to be criticised you are in the wrong place,” she told the television program. “I take the positive. I take what’s good for me. I leave behind what is not good for me.

“I let my management take care of that and if it hurts anyone, they will take care of that. And I need to focus on what’s right for me, how I feel and last, but not least, you can’t please everybody.”

Her comments come weeks after the singer opened up on her dating life following the death of her loving husband René. Celine claimed she’s “not ready to date” and instead is using her time to focus on her children and successful singing career.

Back in 2016 René sadly passed away after a battle with throat cancer and since then the talented singer has remained single, unable to pursue a new love interest. While she has remained private about any potential relationships in the past, Celine opened up in a recent interview on America’s Today show, admitting she does miss having a partner but it’s not time to begin something new.

“I don’t date,” she happily declared on the program. “I’m not ready to date. I’m very lucky and happy to have so many people in my surrounding to make me – they make me laugh, but I miss to be touched.”

“I miss to be hugged. I miss to be told ‘you’re beautiful’. I miss what a boyfriend and I miss what a husband would do.”

Although three years have passed since René’s death, Celine continued by explaining that not a day goes by where she doesn’t think of him. She said she often recalls one of the last conversations the two shared before he took his last breath.

“He called me before a show and give me a little message: ‘I love you’ and when I came home that night, it was very, very late … And I didn’t want to come and wake him up to give him a kiss, to wake him up and then he can’t find sleep again,” she explained on Today. “And the next morning, he was gone. So, we talked before. And he send me a text message. So we said goodbye.”

After 22 years of marriage Celine said René will always be a part of her in some way or another and even when making new music, like her latest album, she thinks of what her late husband would say. Speaking about her new collection to coincide with an upcoming tour the 51-year-old explained on Today: “This is my first English album without René. When I say without René, without René physically, because René will always be a part of me.”