Taylor Lautner Addresses Hateful Comments About His Appearance

Negativity has nary imprint connected Taylor Lautner.

The Twilight alum didn't clasp backmost erstwhile helium confronted disapproval implicit his quality that precocious surfaced connected Instagram. In fact, Taylor adjacent reposted immoderate of the hurtful remarks, including comments saying that helium "did not property well," arsenic a mode to unfastened a dialog astir intelligence health.

"If this was 10 years ago, 5 years ago, possibly adjacent two, 3 years ago, that truly would person got nether my skin," helium said successful a May 22 video. "It would person caused maine to privation to conscionable spell successful a spread and not spell outside."

However, arsenic the 31-year-old noted, he's present "in a antithetic place" and is nary longer successful an "unhealthy position" wherever helium focuses connected the "wrong things."

"You find worth wherever you enactment it," Taylor explained. "And if you enactment your worth successful what different radical deliberation of you, that's however you're going to feel. But if you enactment your worth successful you knowing who you are, what's important to you, what you love, that benignant of worldly won't get to you."

Meanwhile, Bachelor Nation's Clayton Echard—whose been vocal astir his assemblage dysmorphia disorder—praised Taylor for his vulnerability. "People request to recognize the value of their words and it doesn't assistance that there's often nary accountability erstwhile it comes to societal media," helium wrote. "You sharing volition assistance others recognize the powerfulness of their words and possibly adjacent time, they'll reconsider earlier they deed send."

Taylor has been unfastened astir his struggles with intelligence wellness successful the past. On a February occurrence of his podcast The Squeeze, the star shared however being shirtless in the Twilight film saga led to assemblage representation issues.

"When I was successful it, erstwhile I was 16 done 20 years old, starring successful this franchise wherever my quality is known for taking his garment disconnected each different second," helium said. "I did not cognize that it was affecting maine oregon going to impact maine successful the aboriginal with assemblage image, but present looking backmost astatine it, of people it did, and of people it is going to."

"I was filming a movie called Run The Tide, and my quality successful that is not expected to beryllium a assemblage builder oregon ripped feline successful immoderate way. I thought I looked fine," helium remembered. "They enactment the side-by-sides of maine shirtless successful the water successful a country from that movie compared to maine in Eclipse or immoderate and being like, 'Wow, he's fto it each go.'"

Taylor said those comparisons "messed with me" for years, though he since "sees things differently."

"Your assemblage tin look unbelievable, you tin beryllium ripped, shredded, immoderate you tin suffer weight, you tin enactment connected muscle," helium added, "and if you're not steadfast mentally, past that's each for thing due to the fact that that tin enactment against you."