Lizzo participates in the 65th Grammy Awards on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
In situation you neglected exactly how silly the quantity of hate that plus-size ladies obtain for just existing is, Lizzo simply went off in a collection of tweets regarding coming to be the target of current viral message triggering a dogpile of fatphobic, body-shaming remarks.
On Wednesday (May 31), Lizzo shared a screenshot of a harsh tweet — in which a customer shared a video clip of the Grammy champion dance onstage as well as buffooned her for being fat — as well as composed, “I JUST logged on and the app and this is the type of s–t I see about me on a daily basis.”
“It’s really starting to make me hate the world,” the artist proceeded. “Then someone in the comments said I eat ‘lots of fast food.’ I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO… I’m tired of explaining myself all the time and I just wanna get on this app w/out seeing my name in some bulls–t.”
In succeeding tweets, she composed, “The Love definitely do not outweigh the Hate on social media… all because I’m fat????” as well as “Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F–KING FARM…”
The “About Damn Time” vocalist has actually been clear regarding the quantity of body-shaming she’s obtained on social networks, which she claimed simply recently has actually just raised in current months. To battle the negativeness, she’s primarily maintained her Twitter locked down on exclusive — yet that plainly hasn’t quit harasses from showing up on her feed or in her states.
“I literally NEVER search my name this stuff just comes up on my TL & my FYP it’s wild,” the celebrity likewise tweeted Wednesday. “I swear I just wanna look at dance videos and science news and this s–t comes in every day…”
A pair weeks prior, Lizzo had actually leveled with followers on TikTok regarding exactly how a great deal of individuals think that she exercises as well as consumes healthy and balanced simply to slim down, or “escape fatness,” as she placed it. “As I got more professional in my career, I started to take the physical part more seriously,” she discussed in the May 15 video. “I’ve always loved moving my body, I’ve always loved working out.”
“I think a lot of people see a fat person that way and immediately just assume everything they are doing is trying to be thin,” she included at the time. “I’m not trying to be thin, I don’t ever want to be thin.”
The Yitty owner resembled these beliefs in a follow-up tweet on Wednesday. “I’m not trying to BE fat I’m not trying to BE smaller I’m literally just trying to live and be healthy,” she shared. “This is what my body looks like even when I’m eating super clean and working out!”
She included: “Yall speak on s–t y’all know NOTHING ABOUT and I’m starting to get heated.”
