Photo: Lizzo/Instagram
There’s no stoppingLizzofrom owning her body.
The “Truth Hurts” singer, 32, never holds backfrom supporting the body positive movementand for her latest push to shift conventional beauty ideals, she’s sharing (and baring) it all.
“From then on, I was like, I have nothing to hide. There’s no shame anymore. I just post myself. It’s like, you take me as I am. You don’t have to love me,” the star continued.
And true to her word, Lizzoshared an empowering, unedited nude photo on Instagramahead of her chat with the beauty giant on Tuesdayto inspire othersto embrace their Photoshop- and filter-free selves.
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For Lizzo, self-love wasn’t a choice, it “was literal survival,” she explained. “I’m going to continue to live in this body and survive in this body and be happy and actually enjoy life, I need to find a way to like myself. I was body negative for a long time.”
Lizzo’s ultimate goal is to foster a world where bodies of all shapes and sizes are accepted and body positive statements don’t need to be big moments anymore.
“It’s not a political statement. It’s just my body. When you see it, keep it pushing. Keep that same energy that you keep with all the other bodies you see. That’s what body normative really means to me,” the singer said. “I’m here, don’t say anything. It’s not a statement. It’s my body.”
“The scary thing about [it] is when I was their age, the girls now who are 12 or 13, I felt the same way. I remember waking up and wanting to be someone else, change my body, change my eye color, my hair texture, the shape of my body and the color of my skin,” Lizzo said. “I didn’t have photo retouching or filters. It scares me to think that now there is a tool that actually cashes in on that insecurity and it makes it bigger. It feeds the monster.”
A positive stride that has helped Lizzo’s mindset has been “following people who looked like me” on social media.
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“I was following people before who I thought were beautiful and they were society’s beauty standard. Looking at them made me have this desire to edit or to change or think that I wasn’t worthy. I don’t want one person’s beauty to diminish the other,” she said.
“One day I stumbled uponGabi Fresh. She had the first bikinis for fat girls. I was so excited. I was like, ‘She looks like me, right?’ I hit that follow button so hard,” Lizzo continued. “That led me to this beautiful world of women who looked like me.”
source: people.com
