Grammy Winner LIZZO Says “Body Positivity” Has Become Too “Commercialised & Cool”
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Grammy Awardee, singer Lizzo has expressed her views after becoming a “First big black women” to glorify the cover of Vogue Magazine.
She believes that, the body positivity has now become so fair, and tried to convey that the body positivity calls for the acceptance of all shapes and sizes. The star said that, “It’s commercialized, truth hurts. Now, you look at the hashtag ‘body positive’ and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls.”
She further said, “Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about.”
The 32 year old pop singer said that, she is thankful that the conversation about the ‘body positivity’ has been put up in the mainstream media. She also said that, she dislikes that how the term has come up in the world and the people for whom the term was created “are not getting the benefits of it.”
She further said, “Girls with back fat, girls with bellies that hang, girls with thighs that aren’t separated, that overlap. Girls with stretch marks. You know, girls who are in the 18-plus club.
“They need to be benefiting from… the mainstream effect of body positivity now. But with everything that goes mainstream, it gets changed. It gets – you know, it gets made acceptable.”
“Being fat is normal”
The pop star grabbed three Grammy Awards in January, including the best Pop solo performance for ‘Truth Hurts.’
She quoted that, “It would be lazy of her just to just say I’m body positive, and that the next step was to normalise bigger bodies.”
She went on, “I would like to be body-normative. I want to normalise my body. And not just be like, ‘Ooh, look at this cool movement. Being fat is body positive.”
“No, being fat is normal. I think now, I owe it to the people who started this to not just stop here. We have to make people uncomfortable again, so that we can continue to change.”
“Change is always uncomfortable, right?”
Although, a global analysis published in the last month suggests that people who are obese are having double the risk of hospital treatment from COVID-19 and the risk of dying from COVID-19 is increased by almost 50 percent.