Joe Biden-Kamala Harris 2020 campaigner and pop singer Lizzo appeared to celebrate obesity in an Instagram video over the weekend and declared her body to be a work of “art.”
Wearing a bikini, the 34-year-old singer scolded her body shamers and critics of her physique, including those who feel she had lost too much weight, allegedly betraying the body positivity movement.
“The discourse around bodies is officially tired,” she began. “I have seen comments go from: ‘Oh my gosh, I liked you when you were thick. Why did you lose weight?’ to ‘Oh my gosh, why did you get a BBL [Brazilian butt lift]? I liked your body before’ to ‘Oh my gosh, you’re so big’…”
Lizzo called these comments delusional and referred to her body as a work of “art.”
“Are we okay? Do you see the delusion?” she asked. “Do we realize that artists are not here to fit into your beauty standards? Artists are here to make art, and this body is art.”
Lizzo further stressed that she will do “whatever I want with this body” while urging people to stop wasting time criticizing her body image.
In another social media post over the weekend, Lizzo also tore into “cancel culture” for appropriating real outrage from marginalized groups.
“This may be a random time to say this but it’s on my heart.. cancel culture is appropriation. There was real outrage from truly marginalized people and now it’s become trendy, misused and misdirected. I hope we can phase out of this & focus our outrage on the real problems,” she tweeted.
This may be a random time to say this but it’s on my heart.. cancel culture is appropriation.
There was real outrage from truly marginalized people and now it’s become trendy, misused and misdirected.
I hope we can phase out of this & focus our outrage on the real problems.
— FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) January 8, 2023
Lizzo’s praise of her body follows an interview she gave in March, declaring herself a “body icon” and a champion of the body positivity movement.
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