*Lizzo is back at speaking about body positivity and the double standard when it comes to judging men’s bodies.
In a new interview with Brazil’s TV Folha, after her debut performance in Rio de Janeiro, the songstress gushed about being loved by millions of people who could care less about her weight, Complex reports.
“I think that women are always going to be criticized for existing in their bodies,” Lizzo said. “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, or sexualized just to exist. Things on them that were beautiful were called flaws and they persisted against that and fought against that.”
She continued, “Now, I’m able to do what I do because of those great women. And they all look completely different. They don’t all look the same. And they all had to deal with the same type of marginalization and misogyny.”
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She then noted the body positivity double standard between women and men’s physical appearances: “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 dick sizes, do we? And say that’s not a conventional dick size—it’s too small. We still let y’all asses run all over the goddamn place.”
Lizzo also had this to say about the “lack of representation in the world.”
“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.”
Hear more from Lizzo on the issue via the YouTube clip above.
Meanwhile, the pop star, 31, flaunted her much talked about body in a series of beachside pic from her vacation in Brazil on Instagram on Friday.
“Roll Model,” she captioned a photo of herself rocking a red swimsuit, a clear reference to fat rolls on her body (see below).
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