In a recent interview with The Cut centered around her involvement in Dove's Self-Esteem Project, Lizzo talked about her thoughts on issues surrounding the body-positivity movement.
"There's even a lot of very triggering and fat-phobic behaviors that have come from the body-positive movement," she said. "There are things like body checking, and comparing sizes, or shaming sides."
"It's not about a moment. It's about this system that oppresses big bodies," she continued. "People [need to] understand the gravity of this movement and honor the reason why it was created."
"Don’t be like, 'Cute. I’m gonna love myself today, and that’s body positivity.' It’s more like, 'No, I’m gonna love myself and thank goodness for the fat women who paved the way and were vocal about it.'"
"I hope that I can post the kinds of materials that I post, showing my body and showing my rolls or whatever. And people are just like, 'Okay. Beautiful picture. Next.' Instead of, like, 'Oh my gosh, a full-figured body. How strikingly political!'"
"I don’t know exactly the details of what body neutrality is," she said at another point in the interview. "But when I say I just want to be body normative, I’m not trying to create a whole new movement."
