Lizzo says body positive movement has become ‘commercialised’
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... and doesn’t benefit ‘girls with bellies that hang’
‘What I don’t like is how the people that this term was created for are not benefiting from it,’ Truth Hurts singer says.
By Chelsea Ritschel
Lizzo has opened up about the body positivity movement and why she believes the message has become ‘commercialised’.
The Good As Hell singer discussed the issues with body positivity in a new cover interview for Vogue’s October 2020 issue, where she said that the movement has become appropriated to the point it’s no longer benefiting those it was created for.
‘It’s commercialised. Now, you look at the hashtag ‘body positive,’ and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls. Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about,’ Lizzo said. ‘I’m glad that this conversation is being included in the mainstream narrative.
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