Julianne Hough Claps Back At Body-Shamers After “Inappropriate” Bikini Video Sparks Criticism

The dancer had opened up in the past about dealing with body-image issues.

“I was very self-accepting growing up, then something switched in middle school,” she told Redbook Magazine in 2017. “I would compare myself to everyone and later I did a film where I basically was told I was fat every day, yet I was the skinniest I’d ever been.”

Hough explained how the experience such as that made her resort to what she described as acting “completely crazy or goofy” in order to calm herself down, trying to recapture the “freedom [she] felt as a kid before all that happened.”