She’s showcased countless risqué outfits to flaunt her famously sexy physique on stages and red carpets throughout her glittering career.

But Rihanna revealed on Friday that her outfit choices are frequently dictated by her ‘fluctuating’ body type – saying that from one week to the next she can go up or down a dress size.

The singer candidly confessed that she has to think about whether she is having a ‘fat week’ or a ‘skinny week’ when considering her wardrobe.

Speaking to The Cut, the songstress said: ‘I actually have had the pleasure of a fluctuating body type, where one day I can literally fit into something that is bodycon.

And then the next day – the next week – I need something oversized.’

The 29-year-old starlet added: ‘I really pay attention every day when I go into the closet about what’s working for my body that morning,’ she said, adding: ‘It’s an individual thing.’

She considered: ‘If you take it further, it’s like: “What week are you having? You having a skinny week? You having a fat week? Are we doing arms this week? We doing legs this week? We doing oversized?”‘

Rihanna – whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty – was speaking at an event in New York to promote her Fenty x Puma fall 2018 collection.

The fashionista’s interest in all things sartorial has seen her work with Armani, Dior and Puma on ventures made in parallel with her supremely successful career as a singer-songwriter and actress.

She launched her Fenty Beauty line during London Fashion Week at Harvey Nicholls in Knightsbridge in September. 

In June, Rihanna felt compelled to respond to a sports writer when he publicly shamed her about her body her body image.

Writer Chris ‘Spags’ Spagnuolo was suspended from his position as a writer at Barstool Sports for asking his Twitter followers: ‘Is Rihanna Going To Make Being Fat The Hot New Trend?’ and shared a picture of the singer. 

Brushing off the criticism, Rihanna responded with a humorous weight loss meme the following week.

A side-by-side comparison showed a fuller-figure picture of rapper Gucci Mane from 2007 next to his current, fitter self. To which she added a crying face emoji. 

The meme read: ‘If you can’t handle me at my 2007 Gucci Mane, you don’t deserve me at my 2017 Gucci Mane’.

Rihanna’s candid remarks to The Cut aren’t the first time the Barbadian beauty has spoken out about body-consciousness.

In an interview in 2012 she said: ‘You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

‘You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have.

‘No one is ever 100 per cent like, “Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!”‘