CMAT On Her ‘Deep Sadness’ Following Relentless Body Shaming

CMAT has shared an emotional statement addressing the online abuse she received following her appearance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend last weekend.

Posting to Instagram on Thursday, the Irish singer-songwriter said she felt “compelled to wade in and speak for myself” after cruel comments about her body circulated online in the days after the festival.

She revealed she has deleted Instagram, TikTok and X from her phone in an effort to protect her mental health, but said the scale of the discourse surrounding her appearance still reached her.

“It’s been very hard to try and describe how difficult the last few days since the bbcr1 big weekend have been,” she wrote, referencing an essay published by music blog Front Row Feels which she said “summed up a lot of what is causing my deep sadness.”

 

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In the post, CMAT described the repeated scrutiny over her body as “boring” and exhausting, saying the abuse has intensified alongside her growing success.

“I would love to stop but I cannot because it keeps happening, at an accelerating and worsening pace as I become more famous,” she wrote.

“There is no relief from this — nobody can protect me or save me from this.”

The Dublin performer also addressed assumptions that her appearance is a deliberate statement, insisting that her body is not a “punk rock act of liberty.”

“I simply have a body,” she wrote. “One that I would of course like to change in order to fit in and avoid all of this abuse, but I have had extreme difficulty in doing so.”

Despite the emotional toll, CMAT said she remains grateful for her career and recent success.

“I am at the same time very very happy and grateful every day to have the job that i have.

“The feeling of seeing all your dreams come true after so many years of constant grinding towards them….. chef’s kiss.”

But she also admits that experience has become “tarnished” by constant commentary about her appearance.

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