Nelly Furtado shocked her fans when she performed at Manchester Pride, an annual LGBT event and concert in Manchester, England, on Aug. 25.
Nelly hit the stage wearing an oversized T-shirt printed with an animated image of a woman wearing a cropped white tank top and black pushup bra underneath.
Nelly, 46, was once one of the world’s biggest pop superstars. She gained fame for her debut album Whoa, Nelly! in 2000, featuring the hit single “I’m Like a Bird.”
She is best known for her third album, Loose (2006), which spawned the hits “Promiscuous” (featuring Timbaland), “Say It Right”, “Maneater”, and “All Good Things (Come to an End).”
Loose sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. “Say It Right” became Nelly’s first-ever No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Grammy-winning pop star performed to packed arenas everywhere she went.
Despite Nelly’s worldwide success, fans can’t stop talking about her ballooning weight. Nelly has been the subject of multiple articles about her weight gain and curvaceous figure.
Fans wonder why she isn’t taking a weight-loss drug like Oprah, Serena, and everyone else in Hollywood.
Nelly clapped back by sharing body-positive posts on social media. She captioned one post: “HAVE A BODY NEUTRAL 2025. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, LOVE WITH EVERY INCH OF YOUR HEART.”
She also threatened to file a lawsuit against “charlatans” who used her plus-size images to promote health products online without authorization.
“This year I became aware of the aesthetic pressure of my work in a brand new way, while simultaneously I experienced new levels of self-love and genuine confidence from within,” she explained in a social media post. “For whoever cares, I have never had any face or body surgeries or augmentation, besides for veneers on the top row of my teeth, quite recently.”
“I have not had any face or lip injections or fillers of any kind,” she continued, “but I do have a loving, old school facialist who I purchase serums and creams from and I started that when I was 20.
Nelly shared her red carpet secrets in another post.
“The day before photo shoots and red carpets, I drink a lot of water and sleep on my back. Sometimes on the red carpet or at photo shoots my makeup artist uses face tape to give my eyes, skin and makeup more lift,” she added. “Sometimes my stylist uses body tape to give a certain look to different silhouettes.”
The “Maneater” singer encouraged her plus-size fans to express their individuality.
“Celebrate your individuality and know that it’s perfectly OK to be OK with what you see in the mirror. It’s also OK to want something different. We are all cute little humans just bouncing around the earth looking for hugs,” she concluded.
