Lizzo believes that plus size-women are being erased by society
On her “Substack”, Lizzo wrote that she weighs more than 200 lbs. and is “still a proud big girl. But she feels as though plus-size women are becoming “erased” with weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.
“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. And all of our big girls are not-so-big anymore,” she stated. “We have a lot of work to do, to undo the effects of the Ozempic boom.”
Lizzo shared that she was “sick and tired” of being defined by her weight.
“People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making ‘being fat’ my whole personality,” she wrote. “I had to actively work against ‘mammy’ tropes by being hypersexual and vulgar. Because being a mammy by definition is being desexualized.”
“And that’s the reality that nobody wants to talk about,” she continued. “We’re in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they’re tired of being judged.”
Lizzo went on to say that she struggled with depression when she began her weight loss journey in 2023.
“The old me would tend to binge when sad and depressed. I would order hundreds of dollars of food delivery and eat everything until my stomach felt like it would explode. But this time I just didn’t feel like doing that,” Lizzo continued.
Lizzo called for more discussions in the body positivity movement in which “we release ourselves from the illusion that there is only good and bad.”
“I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand. And grow far away from the commercial slop it’s become,” she said. “Because movements move.”