By
Emily Leibert,
a staff writer for The Cut.
She specializes in coverage at the intersection of gender and sports, the arts, and our relationship to our bodies.
After a recent appearance in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi, Brandy is shutting down speculation about her body. In an Instagram post Saturday, she wrote under a carousel of photos of herself decked out in gold, “Before you speak about someone’s body, before you speak about someone’s face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone’s child. Someone’s friend. Someone’s dream. Someone’s life. A soul … And souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces.” She added that “life was never meant to leave us untouched,” and “every season leaves its signature upon us.”
