Doja, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, first became a victim to weight loss speculations midway through 2021. In July 2021, she got dragged all over the internet over speculations that she had doctored a picture on Instagram.
Internet detectives accused Doja of photoshopping her Instagram pictures from July 11, 2021, to make her waist look slimmer.
However, another group of fans thought she was losing weight. They speculated she was undergoing weight loss as a part of developing new looks for her future projects, especially her clothing range collaboration with PrettyLittleThing.
Doja neither confirmed nor denied weight loss or photoshop, perhaps because she found it unimportant. She has, however, spoken about things she finds important, like her body issues and plastic surgery rumors.
"Growing up, I definitely had body dysmorphia," she told Cosmopolitan Middle East in October 2020. "And I’ve had it since."
She discussed how it started in her teens and how she thought she looked good in nothing she wore. However, she also revealed she had been trying to get it under control through "eating well" and blamed phones and the internet for making it difficult to get completely over her dysmorphia.
