Lizzo Claps Back at Body-Shamers: Self-Love, Positivity Quotes

Lizzo is a celebrity that we simply do not deserve. The singer-songwriter is known to clap back at trolls on the internet, and has made a career of promoting self-love and body positivity. Keep reading to see some of her best quotes on the subject, and all of the times she’s clapped back to body-shamers on the internet over the years.

After the “Good as Hell” singer wore a revealing outfit to a Lakers basketball game in December 2019, Lizzo took to Instagram with a message for everyone who took issue with the moment in question.

“Who I am and the essence of me and the things that I choose to do as a grown ass woman can inspire you to do the same,” she explained. “You don’t have to be like me. You need to be like you. Never, ever let somebody stop you or shame you from being yourself. This is who I’ve always been. Now everyone’s looking at it and your criticism can just remain your criticism. Your criticism has no effect on me. Negative criticism has no stake in my life, no control over my life, over my emotions. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been and surrounded by so much love. I just wanna spread that love and also spread these cheeks. And if you really don’t like my ass, you can kiss it.”

Another time she spoke about the “body-positive movement” was for an interview with Allure back in March 2019.

“The body-positive movement is the body-positive movement, and we high five. We’re parallel. But my movement is my movement. When all the dust has settled on the groundbreaking-ness, I’m going to still be doing this. I’m not going to suddenly change. I’m going to still be telling my life story through music. And if that’s body-positive to you, amen. That’s feminist to you, amen. If that’s pro-Black to you, amen. Because ma’am, I’m all of those things.”

These aren’t the only times the Grammy-winning musician has spoken up about body positivity by a long shot! Scroll through the gallery below to see some of her best quotes on self-love that will make you feel “Good as Hell.”

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‘People Don’t Know How to Love Themselves’

“It’s unfair for us to assume that people know how to love themselves … [corporations have] spent decades telling people they weren’t good enough and selling them an ideal of beauty,” she told The Guardianin October 2018. “All of a sudden you’re selling them self-love? People don’t know how to love themselves, because they were trying to look like the motherfucker you were selling them!”

Accepting Herself

“I don’t think that loving yourself is a choice,” she told NBC News in April 2019. “I think that it’s a decision that has to be made for survival; it was in my case. Loving myself was the result of answering two things: Do you want to live? ‘Cause this is who you’re gonna be for the rest of your life. Or are you gonna just have a life of emptiness, self-hatred and self-loathing? And I chose to live, so I had to accept myself.”

MTV VMAs Speech

She gave an empowering speech in the middle of her performance at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards and we’re still not quite over it.
“I’m tired of the bullshit. And I don’t have to know your story to know that you’re tired of the bullshit too,” she told the crowd. “It’s so hard trying to love yourself in a world that doesn’t love you back, am I right? So I just want to take this opportunity to feel good as hell. Because you deserve to feel good as hell. We deserve to feel good as hell.”

‘I’m Just As Fine As Those Girls’

“I didn’t have enough women to look up to and they weren’t given enough space in the industry to carve out a lane for big girls that are brown and Black and want to sing and dance without getting shit talked and body shamed,” Lizzo told Vogue in May 2019.
“I’m out here and I set my mind to it,” she continued. “I want to be a s-x symbol and music goddess and I’m out here trying to make that happen for myself. I’m here for the fantasy but I want to be a part of that fantasy. I’m just as fine as those girls.”

Clapping Back

In an iconic TikTok from 2020, Lizzo clapped back at fat shamers. Sharing workout clips and mirror selfies, the “Truth Hurts” singer said via voiceover, “So I’ve been working out consistently for the past five years, and it may come as a surprise to some of y’all that I’m not working out to have your ideal body type.”

She continued, “I’m working out to have my ideal body type. And you know what type that is? None of your f—ing business. Because I am beautiful, I am strong, I do my job, and I stay on my job. So next time you want to come to somebody and judge them, whether they drink kale smoothies or eat McDonald’s, or work out, or not work out, how about you look at your own f–king self?”

Stepping Into Confidence

“I think I have a really hot body! I’m a body icon, and I’m embracing that more and more every day. It may not be one person’s ideal body type just like, say, Kim Kardashian might not be someone’s ideal, but she’s a body icon and has created a modern-day beauty standard,” the “Juice” singer told People Magazine in 2022. “And what I’m doing is stepping into my confidence and my power to create my own beauty standard, and one day that will just be the standard.”

‘I’m Tired of Explaining Myself’

Lizzo spoke about the onslaught of fatphobic comments she receives online on a daily basis during a Twitter thread posted in May 2023.

“I’m tired of explaining myself all the time,” she tweeted, referencing a post made about “how” her body should look like. “I’m not trying to BE fat. I’m not trying to BE smaller. I’m literally just trying to live and be healthy. This is what my body looks like even when I’m eating super clean and working out! Y’all speak on shit y’all know NOTHING ABOUT,” she added in another tweet.

She added, “Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F–KING FARM.”

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