Kelly Osbourne says the body-shaming she’s faced online in recent months has been cruel—and insists she doesn’t believe anyone deserves that kind of attack, especially while she’s dealing with personal hardship.
Kelly Osbourne didn’t mince words when she talked about the body-shaming she says she’s been subjected to online in recent months. At the LAX.BID charity art auction in aid of Mind and The Ricky Hatton Foundation in London on Thursday. June 18. the 41-year-old television star and singer said the comments have gone beyond ordinary mean-ness.
“I will be honest and say that I’ve never experienced cruelty like it,” Kelly told Us Weekly exclusively at the event. “And I don’t think anyone deserves that kind of cruelty.”
She said she doesn’t pay attention to the insults about her appearance. but she also pointed to the mindset behind them. “You have to be very mentally unwell to say the things that people are saying about me,” Kelly said. “I feel sorry for them. ” she added. framing her response less as a fight and more as a reaction to harm she believes is being inflicted for no reason.
Her remarks land against a backdrop of her own candor over what she’s been navigating. Over the years, Kelly has spoken publicly about her sobriety, weight loss, and other personal moments. In May 2021. she told Us Weekly. “I got sober. ” explaining. “I replaced drugs and alcohol with food. my body metabolized differently. Once I got sober and I gained weight uncontrollably, it was insane. [People] kept […]”.
She has also been open about grieving her father, legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne, who died in July 2025 at age 76. Earlier this year, she split from fiancé Sid Wilson, with whom she shares son Sidney, 3. Kelly credited her family and friends—and her son—for helping her stay resilient through a difficult year that has included the trolls she continues to face.
“I have an amazing support system. I have an amazing medical team. I have an amazing family. I have amazing friends … and my son,” she told Us. “And you never really know what’s going on with someone. That’s why I always make the point to smile at someone when I’m walking down the street. because that one smile can change their whole everything.”.
Speaking further about her grief, Kelly said, “It’s taught me that time is the most precious thing we have.” She added that it has brought her closer to her family, including mom Sharon Osbourne, 73.
Kelly’s latest statements also followed earlier outbursts about the online remarks. In December 2025, she called out “disgusting, horrible, mean, rude comments” about her appearance on Instagram. In an Instagram Story video at the time. Kelly asked. “I’m just here to say. what do you expect from me?. What do you expect me to look like right now?” She continued. “The fact that I’m getting out of bed and facing my life and trying to be more than enough. I should be commended for that.”.
She said people criticizing her look seemed to ignore what she was living through. “For example, you say that I look ill. Well, I am ill right now. My life is completely flipped upside down. I don’t understand how people expect me to bounce back and look like everything is just fine in my life when it’s not.”.
Earlier, in an Instagram Stories video posted Sunday, March 1, Kelly wrote, “There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something,” adding that it has meant “Kicking me while I’m down, spreading my struggles as gossip and turning your […]”
She criticized the comparisons being made—specifically when commenters compared photos of her now to a picture from when she was 18. “Another thing that is strange is that you compare photos of me now at 41 years old to a picture of me when I was 18 years old. People’s faces change when you grow older,” Kelly said.
What she said bothered her most, though, was who was doing it. “The thing that I find the most disappointing in all of this is that most of the comments are coming from grown-ass women. ” the “Papa Don’t Preach” singer added. “Women that say they’re counselors. women that are mothers. women that look like they have weight struggles of their own.”.
Kelly also accused the comments of coming from a lack of solidarity between women. “And it’s absolutely devastating that women can’t support other women,” she shared. “They’d rather tear them down when their dad just died. It’s disgusting, and I’ve had enough of it. So, go f*** yourself.”
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