United Kingdom, May 2 -- Lorde felt "weak" and "ungrounded" as she battled body image issues.

The pop star has confessed she made her body "very small" because she thought that was required of her as a woman in the public eye, admitting she didn't release a record for four years because she didn't want to make music until she felt better about herself.

She told Document Journal: "There would be these layers of grief that would come through, and there was such a collective anger, and so much trauma coming to the surface.

"Then on top of that, I had made my body very small, because I thought that that was what you did as a woman and a woman on display. I thought, I'm small.

"This will communicate to people that I'm taking my position se...