Fat-shamed popstar inspired by online trolls

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Online trolls who attempted to fat-shame pop star Selena Gomez have helped inspire her new music.

The Come & Get It singer admits she was so upset by some of the mean comments aimed at her after shots from a Mexico beach holiday appeared online that she temporarily shut down her Instagram account.

But then she realised she could take the feelings of hurt and anger and turn them into song lyrics for the tracks she recorded for new album Revival.

"I was getting a lot of hate for my body and gaining weight, and I was in Mexico and I was just feeling all of this stuff and I would be lying to you if I said it didn't kind of hurt my feelings, but I kind of channelled that into my music," Gomez said.

"I felt like everybody was saying so much and I'm like, 'I need to say something'," she added.

Gomez says she wants to he heard through this album, which she has described as the "best thing" she's ever done in her career.

The 23-year-old said the social media hits she took about her body image is nothing compared to the abuse teenage girls are subjected to.

"I think it's so hard now more than ever because there's so much access ... I've had to delete Instagram off my phone for a week and just kind of not get on it, 'cause it is crazy'.

"I couldn't imagine being 13 and dealing with it," she said

"You can't listen to it, you have to know that you're made individually to be who you are and you should just be able to find your happiness (but) it's so hard to say, cause I've been doing it myself."

- WENN