After concerns about her weight loss during the Wicked promotions, fans are now noticing Ariana Grande looking healthier than before!
Grande and Cynthia Erivo took the stage at CinemaCon to debut the first trailer for Wicked: For Good, with the singer stunning in a chic strapless black mini dress from Armani.
The dress featured a ruffled semi-sheer skirt, and she paired the look with black velvet pumps, along with pearl earrings and a matching $330 necklace from her collaboration with Swarovski.
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Her golden locks were styled in a slicked-back center part, and she sported her signature doll-like makeup look. Fans quickly took to JustJared's Instagram comment section to point out her noticeably healthy glow.
"Ariana looks so healthy and happy here!"
"Ariana looks better here."
"She looks a lot healthier now and seems to have put some weight back on."
Her appearance comes after she consistently made headlines over her dramatically thin figure during the intense Wicked promotions earlier this year.
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Back in January, Board-certified weight loss expert Dr. Sue Decotiis told DailyMail, "It looks like she lost too much weight. It also looks like her eyes are bulging, which is a sign of a lot of weight loss and could actually be a thyroid disease too."
Decotiis also noted his biggest concerns, saying, "My biggest concern for her would be losing bone density [which increases the risk of injuries]. This could be accompanied by having very low estrogen levels, not getting your period, fertility issues, and more."
Users on social media were worried for her as many thought she looked "sick," "unwell," and even "malnourished."
Afterwards, Ariana subtly hinted at criticisms toward her body during her Wicked London press tour, when a journalist asked, "How do you cope with beauty standards and critics? Because this is something that is so overwhelming for women to always look perfect. How do you deal with that?"
She said, "I've been kind of doing this in front of the public and kind of been, you know, a specimen in a petri dish, really, since I was 16 or 17. I've heard every version of it, of what's wrong with me, and then you fix it, and then it's wrong for different reasons."
The singer and actress added that it's not just the media that focuses on her body; it can also happen in private settings with family: "Even just the simplest thing, your appearance, you know, you're young, and you're hearing all kinds of things; it's hard to protect yourself from that noise," adding that "even if you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone's granny says, 'Oh, my God, you look skinnier; what happened?' or 'You look heavier; what happened?' It's like, that is something that is uncomfortable and horrible no matter where it's happening, no matter the scale it's happening on."
