*Days after making a spectacle of herself by twerking at a Lakers game with her ass cheeks out, Lizzo, 31, stopped by CBS This Morning to address why she isn’t bothered by the hate she has received over the stunt.
“I stay in my own positive bubble,” she said to co-host Gayle King, PEOPLE reports. “It’s their opinion. It’s not for me to really ingest, it’s for them to express and for me to choose to listen to or not.”
Lizzo went on to claim that deciding to get up and dance at the game wearing a thong-revealing dress was a spontaneous decision.
Meanwhile, critics are convinced it was a tacky PR moved concocted by her handlers that was timed with the release of her Time magazine cover that dropped this week.
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?@Lizzo, we like your moves! You have an open invite to come home to Houston and dance with @OfficialCCD on the court any time! pic.twitter.com/URCrkCUJPr
— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) December 11, 2019
“I think no one would have ever saw what I was wearing, like the back of it, if I didn’t get up and dance,” she recalled. “The Laker girls came up to me and said, ‘We’re so excited that you’re here, we want to perform one of your songs for you.’ And I remember I was sitting there and I was with my manager and my friend and they were like, ‘You should get up and dance, they’re doing this for you,’ and I was like, ‘Alright.’ ”
“So I got up and just did what I always do. Anyone who knows me knows this is how I’ve always been, this is how I’ve always liked to dress,” she added, before noting that “contrary to popular belief” she wasn’t just wearing a thong underneath the dress.
Continuing, she said, “I had on layers down there, so it wasn’t just flesh to seats.”
The singer went on to explain that putting herself out there like that is part of her ongoing journey toward self-love.
“You know how long it took me to fall in love with this body?” she said. “My butt was my least favorite thing about myself and I learned to love it and that was the thing everybody can’t stop talking about.”
“Be you. Do you. Don’t ever let anybody steal your joy, especially not the internet,” she added.
In related news, famed fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger says he wants to collab with the singer and the Houston Rockets have invited Lizzo to bring her “millennial mammy” act to their court.
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