United Kingdom, July 15 -- Brandy wanted her response to body-shamers to be a "teaching moment" to others.

The 47-year-old singer found herself targeted by cruel comments about her appearance after making a return to the spotlight, and hit back at the trolls in a post on Instagram.

Alongside a series of glamorous pictures of herself, she wrote: "Before you speak about someone's body, before you speak about someone's face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone's child. Someone's friend. Someone's dream. Someone's life. A soul. And souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces."

Now Brandy has opened up about why she took such a public stand against the body-shaming remarks, as she tol...