Lizzo on fat acceptance: a timeline

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“I just took a DNA test turns out I’m naturally fat.” Lizzo on fat acceptance: a timeline.

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00:00Yes, please be positive about your body. Please use our movement to empower yourself. That's the point but the people who created this movement

00:09big women big brown and black women queer women are

00:14Not benefiting from the mainstream success of it

00:30I

00:33Just took a dna test

00:36I'm, just naturally fat

00:37So i've been working out consistently for the last five years and it may come as a surprise to some of y'all

00:43That i'm not working out to have your ideal body type

00:47I'm working out to have my ideal body type and you know what type that is none of your business. I'm

00:55a really solid grounded person and I know that

00:58I'm shocking because you've never seen in a long time a body like mine

01:07Doing whatever it wants to do

01:09And dressing the way that it dresses and moving the way that it moves

01:13Our bodies are none of your business. Our health is none of your business

01:17All we ask is that you keep that same energy with these medium girls that you praise

01:21I just wanted to say i've seen a few of these videos about like, you know

01:25Fat girls who eat healthy and stay active but can't seem to lose weight

01:30I think these kinds of videos are important whether they intend to lose weight or don't want to lose weight

01:36What really bothers me are the fake doctors in the comments saying? Oh you have this so you might have this condition

01:43No

01:45What if i'm just fat?

01:48What if this is just my body?

01:51I don't

01:52Ever want to censor myself because i'm suddenly

01:55Famous or i don't want to censor myself because everyone's looking at me now. I'm not going to

02:02Quiet myself. I'm not gonna shrink myself

02:06Because somebody thinks that i'm not sexy to them

02:14Bodies are not all designed to be slim with a six-pack

02:18You know what I mean if you're feeling down on yourself today just remember that your body is your body

02:24Nobody got your body. So enjoy that

02:28So next time you want to come to somebody and judge them whether they drink kale smoothies or eat

02:34McDonald's or work out or not work out

02:37How about you look at your own fucking self and worry about your own goddamn body?

02:42Because health is not just determined on what you look like on the outside

02:46Health is also what happens on the inside and a lot of y'all

02:51Need to do a cleanse for your insides now. The body positivity has been co-opted by all bodies

02:58and people are

03:00Finally celebrating medium and small girls and people who occasionally get roles fat people are still

03:07Getting the short end of this movement. We're still getting it on. We're still getting talked about

03:13memed

03:14shamed and

03:16No one cares anymore because it's like body positivity is for everybody. I'm the happiest i've ever been i'm surrounded by love

03:23and

03:25I just want to spread that love and also spread these cheeks

03:28And you know if you really really don't like

03:31my

03:33You can kiss it

03:35Because kissing it makes it go away. I promise

03:44You

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