Lizzo is not giving up on speaking up against body shaming.
The artist criticised those who humiliate others for their size, especially those with small or formerly huge bodies, in a TikTok video posted on Thursday, July 10.
“I said I wasn’t gonna speak on this, but as someone who really cares about people and the way this world is going, I have to say something,” the four-time Grammy winner opened her video. “If you are in a thin-presenting body, or in a body that people would consider small, it is not your place to criticize or shame people in bigger bodies.”
The singer continued ”You of all people should understand that bodies change.”
The “About Damn Time” singer clarified that her message wasn’t a reaction to any personal attacks. Instead, she says she’s speaking up for people who don’t share her thick skin.
She also critiqued how the messaging behind body positivity has been co-opted, saying, “It was about people in disabled bodies, queer bodies, Black and brown bodies,” until it was “commercialized and gentrified” and reduced to a synonym for “fat.”
“To all of my bigger body people, do what you want to do with your body. Don’t let nobody bully you. Don’t let nobody try to shame you. Don’t let nobody try to cancel you for living in your body cause it’s your body,” she said further into the clip.
Lizzo concluded, “Can’t nobody guilt me for what I do in my body. That is why I am who I am today. Not because I was fat, not because I was small, not because I was short, not because I was tall. It’s because I’m me and I can stand on that. And you should stand on that too. Don’t live for nobody else. Live for you. And for the people who try to shame those people: mind your business, live your life.”
Lizzo discussed her approach to weight loss on The Breakfast Club in May of this year, stating that she sees her journey as a “weight release.”
“I do call it a weight release because [when] it started, I got snatched here first,” she explained at the time, gesturing to her forehead. “And then my body just followed suit, so I do feel amazing.”
