Lizzo is getting all the way real about being a plus-sized woman and she’s making a big statement about it in an all new post. But what she has to say may come as a surprise to some of her fans.
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As we’ve documented, the “Truth Hurts” artist rarely misses an opportunity to share her insights and opinion about what all bigger women go through. Over the years, she’s let fans in on her professional and personal journeys with the most recent being her weight loss.
Now, in a new essay on Substack, Lizzo is once again commenting on being a big girl, but this time around she’s making a bold claim that plus-sized women are losing weight and not as big anymore due to “the effects of the Ozempic boom.” In the piece, titled “Why is everybody losing weight and what do we do? Sincerely, a person who’s lost weight,” the “Rumors” singer got candid about her reasoning behind why she wanted to shed a few pounds and suggested that plus-sized women were being erased.
“So here we are halfway through the decade, where extended sizes are being magically erased from websites. Plus-sized models are no longer getting booked for modeling gigs,” she wrote. “And all of our big girls are not-so-big anymore. We have a lot of work to do, to undo the effects of the Ozempic boom.”
Turning the essay more personal, Lizzo revealed that she really began losing weight in 2023 after feeling suicidal and depressed following those shocking legal accusations. In an attempt to find some sort of solace from the negativity, she began doing Pilates and going to therapy so that she could ultimately “change how I felt in my body.”
“I discovered that my weight had been a protective shield, a joyful comfort zone, and even sometimes a super hero suit to protect me through life. My weight, like my hair, represented time. It stored energy,” Lizzo explained. “And I wanted to release myself from it. So from that moment on any weight on my physical body that was subtracted was not a pound ‘lost’ but a pound ‘released’. It was energetic for me, not vain.”
She went on to say that she was holding onto so much personal trauma in addition to the professional drama and that her wanting to shed pounds was never about being “thin.” Additionally, she revealed she also wanted to lose weight so that her could no longer take the spotlight over her talent.
“People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making ;being fat’ my whole personality,” she said. “I had to actively work against ‘mammy’ tropes by being hypersexual and vulgar because being a mammy by definition is being desexualized.”
She continued: “And that’s the reality that nobody wants to talk about. We’re in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they’re tired of being judged.”
“I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop it’s become. Because movements move,” concluded.
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