Pop star Tones and I opens up about cruel threats, relentless body shaming

Pop star Tones and I is opening up about the relentless and cruel public commentary she has endured since finding fame, revealing she once relied on prosthetics to overcome trolls.

Pop star Tones and I is opening up about the relentless cruel threats and body shaming which she says beat her “so far down” since shooting to global stardom in 2019.

The “Fly Away” hit-maker, who recently unveiled a high-fashion transformation, admitted she once relied on prosthetics to hide her face after repeatedly being told wasn’t “pretty enough” to meet the industry’s unrealistic beauty standards.

Tones and I has been sharing an array of high-fashion looks to her fans on social media. Picture: Instagram

The Aussie chart topper says she was subjected to relentless body shaming over the years.

“I never really open up or go into detail on how this industry (including the public) beat me down, so far down while I continued to grind my way tooth and nail into a position that statistically I deserved but from face value was always under attack,” Tones said.

“I kept my cool amidst the hate, threats, body shaming and continued to keep my head down and find my happiness in human interactions.

Tones added that since finding fame with her 2019 debut single Dance Monkey she had struggled with a lack of confidence.

Tones and I says body shaming beat her ‘so far down’ since she shot to global stardom. Picture: Emma Brasier

In her candid post shared on social media, the Mornington Peninsula local conceded that many fans and observers still struggled to see her as a real person with emotions.

“I was a ‘song’ not a person for a long time and to a lot of people I still am,” she said, touching on the upcoming release of her new album ‘Beautifully Ordinary’ in August.

“I’m OK with that but for the people who care, I have more to give I always have, you just didn’t care to see it.”

It comes as Tones, born Toni Watson, continues to flaunt stunning looks to her combined 1.2 million social media followers ahead of her upcoming national tour later this year.

In a rare interview last March, the singer spoke candidly about how her appearance has been heavily scrutinised throughout her career.

“I was so out of my comfort zone, I looked like I just crawled out of the gutter,” she told the LifeUncut podcast hosts Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne.

“I didn’t have an aesthetic or a style, I was a chubby little girl from the street. You just put me up and then you just smash me so far down, like I didn’t have a say in anything.

“With me, specifically, people were so offended by how I looked that I started pre-empting what people would think before anything was even out. And I judged myself as harsh as I could, so I was really prepared for all that criticism.”