Lizzo has dazzled fans with her drastic weight loss, but mentally, the hitmaker has said she isn’t feeling any different.
The hitmaker, 37, who has admitted to having a complicated relationship with food, is working on making emotional changes to her self-perception.
‘I like how I look now. I still think I’m big. I’m still wearing plus-size clothing. I have the same rolls. I got the same belly, the same thighs — I think I’m just a smaller version,’ she told Women’s Health in an interview published on Monday.
Regarding her confidence about herself, even before dropping an estimated 60 pounds, she explained, ‘Body positivity has nothing to do with staying the same.
‘Body positivity is the radical act of daring to exist loudly and proudly in a society that told you you shouldn’t exist.’
Lizzo, who was targeted by harsh comments as a larger person, explained: ‘Me saying I love myself in 2016 was offensive to people.’
Lizzo recently admitted that she doesn’t feel any different after her dramatic weight loss. ‘I like how I look now. I still think I’m big,’ she told Women’s Health; Lizzo seen left in 2022 and right in 2025
‘How dare you love yourself? You are fat and Black and you’re a woman, so you shouldn’t love yourself,’ she said of the messages sent her way.
The Yitty founder has referred to the change in her body as ‘releasing’ rather than ‘losing’ weight.
‘Let me tell you this. It’s okay to release weight.’ the About Damn Time artist told the publication.
‘It’s okay to gain weight after you’ve released weight, because what you’re not going to do is shame me if my body changes again and I get bigger’.
The Good as Hell singer has denied using Ozempic, or other weight loss drugs, but says, ‘If I did all of this on Ozempic, if I did all this with surgery, I would be just as proud of myself, because this sh*t is hard.
‘Everyone who’s ever been in a bigger body in this current version of society knows that this sh*t ain’t easy. Existing isn’t easy’.
Lizzo actually copped to trying Ozempic, briefly, but found it didn’t help her.
‘Ozempic works because you eat less food, yeah? So if you eat right, it makes you feel full,’ she told the Just Trish podcast in June. ‘But if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it’s the same thing’.
‘I’m still wearing plus-size clothing. I have the same rolls. I got the same belly, the same thighs — I think I’m just a smaller version,’ she said in the interview; seen in June 2025
‘If I did all of this on Ozempic, if I did all this with surgery, I would be just as proud of myself, because this sh*t is hard,’ she explained; seen in May 2025
Lizzo recently shared a dramatic before and after post showing off her weight loss. She said ‘training 3x a week’ and staying in a ‘calorie deficit’ helped her achieve her goal
Lizzo was not alone in her abandonment of the costly medications which can have a price tag of more than $1,000 a month.
A new report on behalf of 19 U.S. Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plans found that only about one-third of patients who started taking the drugs were still taking them a year later, according to Reuters.
In a recent post showing her before and after Lizzo described how she did it.
‘I work my ass off, training 3x a week, daily sauna & cardio, adding animal protein back into my diet, hiring a chef who helps me meal prep and keeps track of what I put into my body in a calorie deficit, cutting out sugary Starbucks & full fat sodas & potato chips… I quit drinking for the longest… (but I’m drinking again cus I earned it!).’
