Key Takeaways:

• Lizzo responded to a viral fats joke with a daring Instagram put up defending physique autonomy.
• She reminded followers that no physique sort is ever “good enough” for critics, and that it shouldn’t need to be.
• The put up provides to ongoing conversations about weight stigma, self-worth and public scrutiny of girls’s our bodies.

Lizzo has zero endurance for the jokes about her weight — not years in the past, and positively not in 2025. On Thursday (Dec. 4), the “Truth Hurts” artist took to social media to handle a viral put up that attempted to body-shame her.

“Today I saw a fat joke about me — in 2025 — and it was viral,” she wrote beneath a photo of herself in a yellow-and-black snakeskin bikini. “It was a dumb joke, and they were just laughing at me because I’m fat… Let me be a reminder to everyone to NEVER let anyone shame you for what you choose to do with your body.”

Lizzo then identified how unattainable it’s to dwell as much as everybody’s requirements, no matter dimension. “Because when you’re big, they talk s**t; when you’re small, they talk s**t,” she stated. “Your body will never be good enough for them because it’s not FOR them. It’s for you.”

The Grammy Award-winning artist has been extraordinarily open about her weight for years. In July, she posted a before-and-after photo responding to all of the Ozempic rumors, explaining that she had been “training three times a week” and doing “daily sauna and cardio [sessions].” She additionally reduce out “sugary Starbucks, full-fat sodas and potato chips.”

“If I get a BBL, mind [your] business. If [I] lose 100lbs, mind [your] business,” Lizzo wrote towards the tip of her Instagram caption. “If I gain every pound back and then some… mind [your] f**ing business. Anyways… my fat a** stays living with a paid-off mortgage in y’all b**ches heads.”

Musically, Lizzo launched MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING in June. It housed her viral “YITTY ON YO TITTYS (FREESTYLE)” and “LEFTRIGHT,” together with options from SZA and Doja Cat. In September, she handled followers to the deluxe album, which introduced visitor appearances from Lil Jon and Tierra Whack.