14 times celebrities shut down body-shamers

It's depressing times when Lady Gaga gives the performance of her life during half-time at the Super Bowl, and still trolls are piping up to criticise the star's body.

Gaga failed to stoop to their level, and instead shared an inspirational, body-positive message to her fans on Instagram.

"I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too," Gaga wrote.

"No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don't need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed.

"Be you, and be relentlessly you. That's the stuff of champions. thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, gaga"

When the comedian and actress received a disgustingly derogatory comment about her gorgeous swimsuit cover for InStyle, she hit back with a picture of herself looking fit and healthy in a blue bikini. And most importantly, feeling "great"... She also added the body-positive caption: "No haters can f with my baseline."

No one can take on the great JK Rowling and not end up regretting it later. The Harry Potter author had the last laugh after she shared a pic of herself with Serena Williams and a troll tweeted that Serena "was built like man".

She tweeted a picture of the tennis champ wearing a figure-hugging red dress and looking hot as hell, and added the caption: "She is built like a man". Yeah, my husband looks just like this in a dress.

"You're an idiot."

The Hollywood actress was as "appalled" as the rest of us upon seeing the offensive poster for her animated movie Red Shoes & The 7 Dwarfs, which appeared to imply that being fat equated to being ugly.

After model Tess Holliday accused the movie of body-shaming, Chloe immediately set the record straight with the tweets: "I have now fully reviewed the marketing for Red Shoes, I am just as appalled and angry as everyone else, this wasn't approved by me or my team.

"Pls know I have let the producers of the film know. I lent my voice to a beautiful script that I hope you will all see in its entirety.

"The actual story is powerful for young women and resonated with me. I am sorry for the offense that was beyond my creative control."

The Oscar-winning actress horrified fans when she revealed that someone in the industry once called her fat.

Speaking to Harper's Bazaar UK, the star continued: "They brought in pictures of me where I was basically naked, and told me to use them as motivation for my diet."

But J-Law said she won't let that ever happen again, adding defiantly: "If anybody even tries to whisper the word "diet", I'm like, "You can go fuck yourself."'

The Modern Family actress hit back at critics who suggested she looked "anorexic" in a photo she had posted on social media.

The star - who underwent a kidney transplant in 2012 and battles kidney dysplasia - responded firmly on Twitter: "I'm not in control of what my body looks like.

"No, that's not Photoshop, those are my legs, those are my arms. I write this because I've been accused of promoting anorexia, in, ironically enough, an anti-bullying post. And I want young girls to know that's not my intention."

Sarah previously told Seventeen that she was born with "so many health issues that doctors told my mother I would never have a normal life."

First Gigi had to defend her curvy figure, next she was standing up for her leaner size. Replying to a commenter who suggested she looked too thin, the model wrote: "It's called growing up.

"Bodies change as girls become women, just as my mom's body changed at the same age.

"Yes, I've lost some 'baby fat,' but muscle mass from my intensive volleyball training in high school has changed over the years into lean muscle from boxing and work stress can have its effect, naturally, but purposefully changing my body has never been my thing."

The Titanic star used her high-profile status as a platform to speak out against bullying and body-shaming. She said all the taunts she experienced as a child and young actress just made her stronger and even more ambitious.

"I had been bullied at school," the actress told the crowd at the WE London event. "They called me Blubber. Teased me for wanting to act. Locked me in the cupboard. Laughed at me... I wasn’t the prettiest. I was even told that I might be lucky in my acting if I was happy to settle for the fat-girl parts. [Casting agents] would say, ‘You're just not what we’re looking for Kate.’"

"I fought back," she went on. "I had to ignore the negative comments. I had to believe in myself. I had to choose to rise above it all, and I had to work hard. You have to be indestructible to do what you love, and believe that you are worth it. And sometimes that’s the hardest part... You are being your best and you own that. Nobody can take that away from you ever."