Lizzo Calls Out ‘Thin-Presenting' People Who Body Shame Others: ‘It Is Not Your Place'

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5 days ago

Lizzo has had enough of people policing other people's bodies, no matter what size they are.
In a recent TikTok, the singer-songwriter shared a message for certain 'thin-presenting' people, who she says need to stop telling others what they should or shouldn't do with their bodies. 'I have to say something,' she began, addressing the camera in a turquoise workout set. 'It is not your place to criticize or shame people in bigger bodies.'
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'It's not your place to criticize how they choose to live in that body [or] how they choose to change that body,' Lizzo continued. 'Especially if you were in a bigger body and you are now in a smaller-presenting body, it really feels inappropriate for you to speak on somebody whose body is changing. You of all people should understand that bodies change.'
The hitmaker went on to say that her reason for making the video had 'nothing to do with me and my feelings,' emphasizing that she instead wanted to speak up for other people who have been 'getting their feelings hurt' by comments about their physical appearance online.
'People forget that the body positive movement was about radical self acceptance,' she explained. 'It wasn't just about people in bigger bodies, it was about people in disabled bodies, queer bodies, Black and brown bodies. When body positivity got commercialized and gentrified, it just became synonymous with the word 'fat.' Now if a person in a bigger body decides to change their body and get smaller, all of a sudden, they're not body positive anymore.'
'To all of my bigger-bodied people, do what you want to do with your body,' she concluded. 'Don't let nobody try to bully you. Don't let nobody try to shame you. Don't let nobody try to cancel you.'
Lizzo's post comes as the star has been more and more open about her own weight loss journey — or, as she prefers to call it, 'weight release.' After suffering back pain caused by her weight putting pressure on her spinal discs, the Yitty founder embarked on a quest to become more active and eat healthier, something she opened up about in a recent Women's Health cover story.
'It's okay to release weight,' she told the publication. 'It's okay to gain weight after you've released weight, because what you're not going to do is shame me if my body changes again and I get bigger.'
Shortly after the interview was published, Lizzo shared side-by-side before and after photos of her body on Instagram. 'I work my a– off, training 3x a week, daily sauna & cardio, adding animal protein back into my diet, hiring a chef who helps me meal prep and keeps track of what I put into my body in a calorie deficit, cutting out sugary Starbucks & full fat sodas & potato chips,' she wrote in her caption at the time, clarifying once again that she didn't achieve her slimmer figure by taking Ozempic.
Watch Lizzo's TikTok below.
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