Lizzo Wants You To Know She's Not 'Brave' For Loving Herself: 'I'm Just Sexy'

These days, it seems like you don't have to wander far to find an audience of girls unapologetically shouting the lyrics to Lizzo's "Truth Hurts." The song, which was released in 2017 however experienced a resurgence this year, is all about confidence and self-love. And while we can probably all agree that the 31-year-old singer-rapper-flautist has an abundance of both those things, she's over being imagined "brave" for loving and embracing her body, which is something she talked about candidly in a new interview with Glamour.


as soon as people look at my body and be like, 'Oh my God, she's so brave,' it's like, 'No I'm not,'" Lizzo instructed them magazine. "I'm just fine. I'm just me. I'm just sexy." And while comments like that may sound complimentary at first, all they really do is perpetuate the toxic notion that being thin is pretty and being anything else is, well, not. "If you saw Anne Hathaway in a bathing suit on a billboard, you wouldn't call her brave," she mentioned. "I just think there's a double common once it comes to women."


And she's right. In case you look at some of the tweets fans send her way, several of those seem to express surprise and envy of her self-confidence. "I don't like it any time people think it's hard for me to be able to see myself as cute she mentioned. "I don't like it as soon as folks are shocked that I'm doing it." The fact that they're shocked is exactly the offer here. And additionally, it's proof that we're not where we need to be in terms of breaking down aesthetics standards.


Fortunately, Lizzo believes we right now have the equipment to change how society sees plus-size females. Today, The world wide web offers us the chance to be able to see real females of all shapes and sizes, rather than females whose bodies have been unrealistically manipulated for a magazine cover. "Back in the day, all you really had were the modeling businesses she mentioned. "I think that's why it made everything so limited for what was imagined pretty. It was controlled from this one space. Nevertheless right now we have the Internet."


And in several ways, The world wide web is what helped the "Juice" singer come to the realization that she is beautiful. It was there that she may visualize females who looked like her; ladies who proved that aesthetics isn't only what we visualize in glossy, high-fashion magazines. "If you wish to be able to see somebody who's cute who looks like you, go on The world wide web and just type something in. Type in 'blue hair.' Type in 'thick thighs.' Type in 'back fat.' You'll find yourself reflected. That's what I did to help find the aesthetics in myself."


Overall, Lizzo just wants people to know that there's an entire generation of artists who aren't "brave" for being "fearless in self-love." Rather, they wholeheartedly love themselves, and we need that to become the new common. "Let's just make space for these girls she mentioned. "... They're out here. They hope to be free. I think allowing that space to be made is really what's going to shift the narrative in the future. Let's stop talking about it and make more space for people who are about it."