Lizzo took to social media to address a viral ‘fat joke’ about her body. The singer, 37, has been candid about her weight loss journey since 2023, and had a direct message for her haters in response.
Posting a picture of herself in a yellow bikini, Lizzo wrote on Instagram: “Today I saw a fat joke about me—in 2025—and it was viral. It was a dumb joke and they were just laughing at me because I’m fat….Let me be a reminder to everyone to NEVER let anyone shame you for what you choose to do with your body. Because when you’re big they talk s–t, when you’re small they talk s–t. Your body will never be good enough for them because it’s not FOR them. It’s for you … If I get a BBL mind ur business. If I lose 100lbs mind your business, if I gain every pound back and then some….mind your f—-ingg business.” Lizzo ended her message writing: “Anyways…my fat a** staying living with a paid off mortgage in yall b–chess heads.”
Lizzo also recently addressed how the topic of her weight has impacted her career, writing in a personal essay published on Substack: “People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making ‘being fat’ my whole personality. I had to actively work against ‘mammy’ tropes by being hypersexual and vulgar because being a mammy by definition is being desexualized. And that’s the reality that nobody wants to talk about,” she wrote. “We’re in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they’re tired of being judged. I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop it’s become, because movements move.”
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