Lizzo slams body shaming, double standards in the industry: 'We don’t talk about your d—k sizes, do we?'
Grammy Award-winning singer Lizzo has been the focus of many in body-shaming debates. Former 'The Biggest Loser' trainer Jillian Michaels caused outrage when she criticized Lizzo's appearance and doubled down on her comments later.
Most recently, Lizzo was criticized for a video posted on Instagram on Valentine's Day, where she is shown twerking in sheer lingerie.
However, the singer is not letting these comments hold her back. In a recent interview with Brazil's TV Folha, she was asked how people reacted to her and "realized that [Lizzo] did not follow the physical conventional [standards] of beauty."
Lizzo laughed off the question initially before replying, "What is the conventional beauty? I walk in the room, everyone stops and stares. What's more beautiful than that?"
She continued to say, “I think that women are always going to be criticized for existing in their bodies and I don’t think I’m any different than any of the other great women who’ve come before me that had to literally be politicized just to be sexual…you know what I mean? [Just to] exist."
She told the interviewer, "Things on them that are beautiful are called flaws and they persisted and fought against that. Now I'm able to do what I do because of those great women and they all look completely different. They all had to deal with the same type of marginalization and misogyny."
Lizzo then asked why men were not subjected to the same level of scrutiny. She went on, “So, what does that tell you about the oppressor? What does that tell you about men? Get it together, we don’t talk about your d—k sizes, do we? Like, ‘that’s not a conventional d—k size, it’s too small.’ We still let ya’ll asses run all over the goddamn place.”
Lizzo also spoke about representation with Brazil's G1, saying, "There is a lack of representation in the world—full stop. Especially for women who look like me,” she said. “But my choice process was to make myself visible, not to shrink. To be heard and use my platforms to raise other women. That’s why I put black and big dancers and also an entire orchestra of black women on the Grammy stage—because I think that if I can help them, I must help them.”