TikTok Sensation Charli D’Amelio Shares Experience Of Online Harassment, Body-Shaming In Family YouTube Video

TikTok sensation Charli D’Amelio has once again opened up about facing constant harassment on social media.

On Tuesday, a video posted on her family’s YouTube channel showed her being interviewed by NBC's Gadi Schwartz. In the video, D’Amelio sits down with her family members to share her experience of facing harassment and body-shaming.

In the 25-minute interview, the 16-year-old reveals being a dancer, she has encountered personal criticism all her life. She says this is a major reason she is usually hurt when people comment on her body.

"If you don’t look the part, and you’re too tall, too skinny, too short, too fat, too muscular — that was my problem, I was too muscular, so I wasn’t a ballerina. I couldn’t be, because that’s what people would tell me, and I believed it. Hearing that from hundreds of people online, it hurts," she says in the video.

D’Amelio goes on to admit she is always worried about making mistakes.

"You always have to worry that something from when you were ten is going to get taken out of context. Or something you might regret every single day of your life is put on the internet, and you have to relive it," she says, adding that she often feels like social media users are not really interested in her apologies or opinions.

"If you have followers, you’re not considered a person. You’re just a thing that people get to judge and objectify and call names and bully," she says.

Earlier this year, the teen faced a lot of criticism for her Instagram bikini photo. She took down the photo from Instagram and took to Twitter to give an explanation on why she deleted the photo.

"STOP TALKING ABOUT MY BODY! it’s not your place to tell me if i’m losing weight or gaining weight. Why don’t we all just be respectful and understand that we should just be kind and uplift everyone instead of trying to bring others down and i’ve seen these videos about me my friends and complete strangers but it doesn’t matter who you’re doing it to. It’s never okay and I feel like I really needed to say that i love you all but please stop!!" she tweeted.