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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAAn Esquire interview meant to highlight Jenna Ortega's journey from child actor to leading star instead pulled focus toward her physique, with some fans expressing concern and drawing comparisons to Ariana Grande.
Jenna Ortega gave an interview this week that was supposed to be about her career, her work with Tim Burton, and how quickly "Wednesday" turned her into one of Hollywood's biggest young names. That's not really what people ended up talking about, though. Almost as soon as the Esquire piece went up on Aug. 11, the conversation online shifted away from her career entirely and toward her appearance.
What She Actually Talked About
The interview itself covered a lot of ground: Ortega's memories of watching "Wednesday" explode in popularity after its 2022 release, a trip to Brazil's Comic Con where she saw firsthand just how big the show had gotten, and reflections on what it was like growing up as a child actor. She was candid about that last part in particular, describing how she used to avoid asking for basic things like food or water on set because she didn't want to be seen as difficult. "I wasn't asking for a sip of water," she said. "I would go all day without eating, drinking, whatever because I wanted so badly to not be in the way of anybody."
Despite all that, screenshots and clips from the interview spread fast, and a noticeable chunk of the reaction had nothing to do with anything she'd actually said. Comments started piling up about her appearance instead, some expressing genuine worry, others drawing direct comparisons to singer Ariana Grande, who's dealt with strikingly similar public scrutiny over her own body in recent years.
It's worth pausing here on what's actually confirmed versus what's just online speculation: Ortega hasn't addressed any of this publicly, and neither she nor Grande has ever disclosed an eating disorder or any specific health issue. Whatever's actually going on, if anything at all, simply isn't public information right now.
An Echo of Grande's Own Experience
This isn't the first time this exact pattern has played out this year. Grande went through something similar not long ago, particularly after the release of her "Petal" music video, which drew its own wave of concerned comments and, in some cases, direct accusations that something was seriously wrong. Grande has pushed back on that kind of assumption before, saying back in 2023 that people shouldn't assume they understand someone's health just by looking at them, and pointing out that an earlier version of her body people sometimes hold up as the "healthy" comparison had actually come during a genuinely difficult stretch of her life.
There's also a broader backdrop here worth mentioning: a wider cultural conversation this year about thinness in Hollywood, one some commentators have connected to the growing availability of GLP-1 weight-loss medications. To be clear, though, there's no public confirmation tying either Ortega or Grande to that trend specifically.
Why This Kind of Speculation Is Tricky
The honest answer is that guessing at someone's health from photos or interview clips just doesn't hold up well. Bodies change for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with illness, stress, travel schedules, simple genetics, and without the person actually saying something themselves, online commentary tends to fill in the blanks with assumptions rather than anything confirmed.
Ortega's built a genuinely massive, engaged following through "Wednesday" and her broader career, so it's not surprising something like this generates an outsized reaction, career-focused interview or not. Pairing that with the Grande comparisons, already a hot-button topic this year, gave the story extra momentum, turning what was meant to be a retrospective on her career into yet another round of debate about beauty standards in entertainment.
As of this report, Ortega and her team haven't said anything publicly in response to the reaction. She's expected to keep promoting her upcoming work over the next several weeks, which will likely keep her in the public eye regardless.
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