In an interview to "Cosmopolitan", the "I got you" hitmaker opened up about her journey with body image.
She said: "'When I first got signed, the label said, 'Are you ready to get in boot-camp shape?' They wanted me to lose 20lb (almost a stone and a half).' 'Back then I was so small, I was only I was only 130lb'.
"It f**ked me up. I was so cold all the time. I would starve myself before filming a music video. She'd (a female creative director) sit opposite me at the dinner table and say, 'You're not losing enough.' All I was eating was salad."
Bebe Rexha earlie called out the designers who refused to dress her for the Grammys because of her shape, reports "metro.co.uk".
"It broke my heart. I was so sad, so depressed. I felt like I was garbage. I thought to myself, 'This is bulls**t.' I was mad. I wasn't trying to get back at anyone, but I wasn't standing for it any more. I was in the studio and I just left, went into the kitchen, and made a video on my phone.
"If a (US) size 6/8 is too big then I don't know what to tell you...That's crazy. You're saying that all the women in the world that are a size 8 and up are not beautiful and they cannot wear your dresses f**k you, I don't want to wear your f**king dresses," she added.
( With inputs from IANS )