Lizzo is opening up about her struggles as one of the most popular voices in promoting the body positivity movement. But after losing weight Lizzio says the discussion may have changed.
Speaking with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Love in Real Life, the Grammy award winner explained why body positivity is not synonymous with being “fat.”
“The body positivity movement was very political and it got taken and kind of commercialized—and now body positivity to people is a code word for fat,” Lizzo told Cohen.
“So they’re like, ‘Oh she’s not body-positive anymore.’ I’m not fat anymore. But I’m still body positive because the body positive movement was actually created by a sub-group of people who were not put in the media, who were not praised, who were told we shouldn’t exist and we weren’t good enough because our bodies were bigger or disabled or even queer and trans people,” she continued.
“We were all a part of … the most recent wave like the 2016 era,” she added. “It was about me bucking against society telling me I shouldn’t exist, I shouldn’t wear leotards and I shouldn’t like how I look.”
In January, Lizzo announced that her body mass index had decreased by over 10 points and she had lost 16 percent of her body fat, reaching her weight loss goal. Many speculated that she was the latest celebrity to use Ozempic to shed weight but she denied taking the drug.
In an interview with The New York Times, Lizzo said she’s learning to appreciate her new shape.
“The idea of body positivity, it’s moved away from the antiquated mainstream conception,” Lizzo said. “It’s evolved into body neutrality.”
“I’m not going to lie and say I love my body every day. The bottom line is, the way you feel about your body changes every single day,” she went on. “There are some days I adore my body, and others when I don’t feel completely positive.”