Lizzo had questions for Yung Miami after being mentioned in the rapper’s interview with Shannon Sharpe on a recent episode of Club Shay Shay. In the conversation, the Miami native used Lizzo as an example when discussing societal pressures on women to maintain a certain body image and the desire for plastic surgery.
“Everybody was like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so fat.’ She look so good now. Now it’s like, ‘Oh my God, eww,’” she said to the former NFL player about Lizzo’s public weight-loss journey. “Like, pick a side. What do you want?” continued the 31-year-old.
After she caught wind of the commentary, the “Truth Hurts” performer decided to go directly to the source. While streaming live, Lizzo made a phone call to Yung Miami, requesting that she clarify her intent.
“What is the ‘eww?’ I have to know,” the 36-year-old asked, later adding, “Actually, I thought you were saying I got too little.”
The “Rap Freaks” rapper responded, “No, no, no. So what I’m saying is, like, people always have something to say.”
Yung Miami continued, “Everybody say you look good but then you’ll have the little five percent that’s like, ‘She looked better when she was fat,’” adding, “That’s what I’m saying. It’s just damned if you do, damned if you don’t. But you’re doing it for yourself, not these people.”
In January, the Grammy winner shared that she had reached a milestone in her health journey, detailing that her body mass index dropped by more than 10 points and she lost 16 percent of her body fat.
“Today when I stepped on my scale, I reached my weight release goal. I haven’t seen this number since 2014! Let this be a reminder you can do anything you put your mind to. Time for new goals!”
Despite sharing her process with fans across social media, Lizzo explained her belief that the term “body positivity” has taken on a new meaning.
“The body positivity movement was very political and it got taken and kind of commercialized — and now body positivity to people is code word for fat,” she explained to Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Love in Real Life earlier this month.
“So they’re like, ‘Oh she’s not body-positive anymore.’ I’m not fat anymore. But I’m still body positive because the body positive movement was actually created by a sub-group of people who were not put in the media, who were not praised, who were told we shouldn’t exist and we weren’t good enough because our bodies were bigger or disabled or even queer and trans people.”
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