Popular singer Lizzo has announced that she gained 20 lbs. in the past year. She recently had her say while speaking to The Guardian about societal pressures on women’s appearances.
Stressing that the pressure on women to lose weight is cruel, Lizzo stated that the hate culture must be consistently frowned upon to guarantee a saner society.
The songstress added that women struggling with weight problems deserve love and support, not criticism.
Her words, “There are a lot of reasons I began to focus on wellness in 2023. People always want to make it one single headline, one single thing. A lot of things can be true at once.
I was in a place where my physical weight was causing joint pain and aches. I also got to the point where I came off the internet, and all I had was the studio and my thoughts.
So I poured myself into the things I could control. My body, my lifestyle. My routines and habits. So, yeah, both of those things are true. And this is who I am today.
I’ve gained 20 pounds since last year, so everyone can ask me about weight gain, too, if they’d like.
Will my body fluctuate from this size? Will I get a little smaller depending on some of the choices I make or a little bigger, depending on some of the choices I make in my life? Yes, I’m used to fluctuating.
There’s a system of oppression that is constantly putting pressure on, especially women and especially women in the spotlight. And that system is unrelenting, and it is determined to make you feel s— about yourself. And it won’t stop until you’ve bought every product and you’ve bought into every lie and turned it in on yourself.
That system is working at an all-time high right now. What worries me is the effect it’s having on the people it’s oppressing. We need to criticize the system and the mediums that are doing this and not the people it’s affecting because those people are human beings having a human experience. We should have grace and love and support for them.
We live in a culture where everybody is racing to get the top comment, and the most hurtful comment wins. We’re in a business of hurting each other.
I think everybody was so careful about the way we spoke about others, and everybody was holding people accountable for the last few years, and now the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. Being cruel is trendy and acceptable. And I think we’re seeing it at the top of our society, from the leaders, all the way down to comment sections. We’re seeing cruelty at an all-time high.”
