Lorde reflects on eating improperly “for weeks” ahead of Met Gala 2021 and explains “gender-broadening” Easter egg comments

Lorde has spoken out about her appearance at the 2025 Met Gala – explaining how she has moved on from eating struggles, and clarifying her “easter egg” comments ahead of her new album.

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The appearance took place over the weekend, and marked Lorde’s first time at the New York event since 2021. In an honest voicenote sent over to fans on Tuesday (May 6), the Kiwi singer opened up about how she has overcome issues with her body in the four years since.

On Whatsapp, she told fans who signed up for updates that the 2025 Gala made her look back at her time there in 2021, when she restricted her eating in preparation for the red carpet.

“I was so hungry,” she revealed. “I didn’t eat properly for weeks thinking about my little tummy on that carpet.”

Adding how her mindset changed for 2025, she continued: “I was there last night fully in myself, and I didn’t have to not eat, I didn’t have to go to the gym a million times. I was just fully in myself. Quite beautiful.”

This isn’t the first time that Lorde has opened up to fans about her struggles with eating and body image. Last week, for example, in a new interview with Document Journal about her first single in four years, ‘What Was That’. The track is the first taste of her fourth album ‘Virgin’, which is due for release on June 27.

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Explaining how it marks a new level of growth for her since 2021’s ‘Solar Power’, she said: “I was very weak. I look back now, and I don’t have that same feeling of floating away. I eat as much as I want and need now.

“I wasn’t very embodied,” she added. “I often would think about not eating very much as I felt like every bite of food I had was stolen. I was like, ‘Hang on, this has gotten weird’.” That lead single also saw her open up about the struggles, with lyrics like: “I wear smoke like a wedding veil/ Make a meal I won’t eat.”

As well as using her appearance at the 2025 Met Gala to open up about previous battles, Lorde has also explained what she meant when she said that the outfit choice offered insight into the new album.

Speaking to Emma Chamberlain for Vogue on the red carpet, the singer got fans talking when she said that the custom piece by Thom Browne was “something of an Easter egg” for ‘Virgin”.

This, she continued, was because it “really represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman… it’s a take on the cummerbund.”

In the conversation with Document Journal, she added that the album was inspired partly by her “gender broadening a little bit” and “coming into [her] masculinity”.

“I had come back from London to New York after this period of great turbulence in my personal life,” she said.” Becoming single, but also really facing my body stuff head-on, and starting to feel my gender broadening a little bit.”

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Since then, however, Lorde has used her voicenote to fans to clarify that she didn’t intend for the “easter egg” comment to be interpreted so literally.

“Just as it was leaving my mouth, I was like, ‘What are you talking about? No, it’s not [an Easter egg]’,” she said. “The language of Easter eggs, I love it as a concept … [but] for what I was referring to, it was not my vibe.”

Lorde’s upcoming fourth album is co-produced by the singer alongside Jim-E Stack. Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes were also involved. She has since talked about how collaborating with Charli XCX influenced the record, while fans have been reacting to the intriguing cover artwork.

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