What is Lizzo’s message?

Let’s call it positivity: Lizzo is body positive, sex positive, woman positive, life positive. But none of this is by design. This is just part and parcel of the way Lizzo lives her life.

“It’s not a label I wanted to put on myself,” Lizzo told The Cut, about the term body positivity. “It’s just my existence. All these fucking hashtags to convince people that the way you look is fine. Isn’t that fucking crazy? I say I love myself, and they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s so brave. She’s so political.’ For what? All I said is ‘I love myself, bitch!’ Even when body positivity is over, it’s not like I’m going to be a thin white woman. I’m going to be black and fat. That’s just hopping on a trend and expecting people to blindly love themselves. That’s fake love. I’m trying to figure out how to actually live it.”

Meet Lizzo, the gloriously body positive hero you need in your life right now