In case you forgot how absurd the quantity of hate that plus-size girls get for merely present is, Lizzo simply went off in a sequence of tweets about turning into the goal of current viral put up prompting a dogpile of fatphobic, body-shaming feedback.
On Wednesday (Might 31), Lizzo shared a screenshot of a vitriolic tweet — during which a person shared a video of the Grammy winner dancing onstage and mocked her for being fats — and wrote, “I JUST logged on and the app and that is the kind of s–t I see about me each day.”
“It’s actually beginning to make me hate the world,” the musician continued. “Then somebody within the feedback stated I eat ‘plenty of quick meals.’ I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO… I’m bored with explaining myself on a regular basis and I simply wanna get on this app w/out seeing my title in some bulls–t.”
In subsequent tweets, she wrote, “The Love undoubtedly don’t outweigh the Hate on social media… all as a result of I’m fats????” and “Y’all don’t know the way shut I be to giving up on everybody and quitting and having fun with my cash and my man on a F–KING FARM…”
The “About Rattling Time” singer has been clear concerning the quantity of body-shaming she’s obtained on social media, which she stated simply final week has solely elevated in current months. To fight the negativity, she’s principally saved her Twitter locked down on non-public — however that clearly hasn’t stopped bullies from showing on her feed or in her mentions.
“I actually NEVER search my title these items simply comes up on my TL & my FYP it’s wild,” the star additionally tweeted Wednesday. “I swear I simply wanna take a look at dance movies and science information and this s–t is available in on daily basis…”
A pair weeks prior, Lizzo had leveled with followers on TikTok about how lots of people assume that she works out and eats wholesome merely to shed weight, or “escape fatness,” as she put it. “As I received extra skilled in my profession, I began to take the bodily half extra significantly,” she defined within the Might 15 video. “I’ve at all times liked transferring my physique, I’ve at all times liked figuring out.”
“I feel lots of people see a fats individual that method and instantly simply assume the whole lot they’re doing is making an attempt to be skinny,” she added on the time. “I’m not making an attempt to be skinny, I don’t ever need to be skinny.”
The Yitty founder echoed these sentiments in a follow-up tweet on Wednesday. “I’m not making an attempt to BE fats I’m not making an attempt to BE smaller I’m actually simply making an attempt to dwell and be wholesome,” she shared. “That is what my physique appears like even after I’m consuming tremendous clear and figuring out!”
She added: “Yall communicate on s–t y’all know NOTHING ABOUT and I’m beginning to get heated.”
