Lizzo is getting vulnerable about her scandal-ridden last couple years.
It’s been over two years now since the Good As Hell singer was accused by her ex-dancers of sexual harassment and more. As we know, multiple claims in Asha Daniels’ lawsuit against Lizzo were dropped in December 2024, but the damage to the singer’s reputation had already been done. And the damage to her psyche? Even worse.
In a candid Substack entry, the Cuz I Love You singer recently reflected on all things mental health and “weight release” amid her transformed new self. Posing the question, “Why is everybody losing weight and what do we do? Sincerely, a person who’s lost weight,” Lizzo admitted:
“I started losing weight in the fall of 2023. I was severely depressed. I had been the subject of a vicious scandal, and it felt like the whole world turned its back on me. I became deeply suicidal.”
She revealed she “cut off” everyone in her life — including family — because she “couldn’t trust anyone” anymore. The 37-year-old revealed she was “angry every single day” — mostly because no one believed her when she tried to defend herself. So, she began neglecting herself:
“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. Not because I thought it would result in my weight loss, but honestly, I didn’t care about my body. I didn’t want to feel safe. A huge part of me blamed myself for what had happened to me.”
She continued:
“So, in my self-loathing and self-neglect I began to rot. As someone who has talked and sang about self-love their entire career, it was hard to watch that happen to myself. And so I decided to turn my extreme inaction to action.”
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The Truth Hurts singer started doing pilates as a way to “process [her] pain through [her] body” and noticed she had unintentionally “lost some weight in that process.” But after seeing those results, she set a goal:
“I’d decided that winter to sit and record a video saying I wanted to intentionally lose weight. Why? I guess I felt like I had lost everything, and I wanted to change. After talking to a few therapists I discovered that my weight had been a protective shield, a joyful comfort zone, and even sometimes a super hero suit to protect me through life.”
She added:
“My weight, like my hair, represented time. It stored energy. And I wanted to release myself from it. So from that moment on any weight on my physical body that was subtracted was not a pound ‘lost’ but a pound ‘released’. It was energetic for me, not vain.”
The 2 Be Loved singer noted that in the wake of her weight release, her “back issues” have eased up and other medical benefits have manifested, but that’s not why she did it:
“I wanted to change how I felt in my body. I had been holding onto so much since my father passed away in 2009. I had been holding onto relationships that were deeply abusive and toxic since 2011. I had been carrying the weight of supporting my family since 2016. I wanted to let-it-the-f**k go.”
The body-positive activist went on to reflect on the emotional toll being a proud plus-sized artist in the industry has been as critics turned out theory after theory attempting to explain her, when the reality is she just wanted to carve out a space in the industry for plus-sized women. But it came to a point where she felt her whole being was “overshadowed” by her size:
“I was sick and tired of my identity being overshadowed by my fatness. People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making “being fat” my whole personality. I know that my story isn’t unique. I know that women in bigger bodies, especially black women in bigger bodies, have had this working against them since forever.”
Now, in a society where Ozempic and other weight loss drugs have become a norm, Lizzo feels size-inclusivity is being erased:
“Plus sized models are no longer getting booked for modeling gigs. And all of our big girls are not-so big anymore. I am still a proud big girl. Objectively Big. Over 200 pounds. And I love myself as much as I’ve loved myself no matter what the scale says.”
She concluded with a call to action:
“I have a lot of work to do to regain the trust of the movement that gave me wings. It is work I am willing and ready to do. What do we do? We continue to have conversations. We continue to hold each other accountable. We release ourselves from the illusion that there is only good and bad. We re-introduce nuance into our discussions. I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop its become. Because movements move..”
You can read Lizzo’s full Substack entry HERE.
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