Lizzo Will get Candid About Physique Positivity: “I Love Normalizing the Dimples in My Butt”

Essence

Lizzo would not strip down for consideration; she does it for herself, and desires to normalize her physique kind.

The 31-year-old plus-size hip-hop star usually posts NSFW photographs of herself on Instagram. Final week, she shared a topless mirror selfie, writing, “Cannot inform if I look higher w/ or w/out garments.” Earlier this 12 months, she posed for Playboy. Lizzo graces the latest digital cowl of Essence, posing pantless.

“I am doing this for myself,” she instructed the journal. “I like creating shapes with my physique, and I like normalizing the dimples in my butt or the lumps in my thighs or my again fats or my stretch marks. I like normalizing my black-ass elbows. I believe it is lovely.”

“I decided to be myself as a result of I knew I had no selection,” she stated. “Generally the label ‘unapologetic’ bothers me as a result of it may be loaded, as a result of it means we have now to apologize for one thing within the first place. I am not ignorant to the truth that we needed to have a demeanor of decreasing ourselves culturally simply to exist. However I am making an attempt to shake up the narrative about how we’re purported to act.”

All through her life, Lizzo has drawn inspiration from Missy Elliott, who’s featured on her single “Tempo,” which incorporates the lyrics, “Sluggish songs, they for skinny hoes / Cannot transfer all of this right here to a type of / I am a thick bitch, I would like tempo (tempo) / F–k it as much as the tempo.”

“Seeing Missy exist in her fact was like, Oh, I can exist in my fact,” she instructed Essence. “She did not attempt to cover something, lie or cowl something up. She was as bizarre and freaky as she wished to be. And I believed that was particular. I need ladies who appear to be me to really feel that manner.”