Lizzo Claims Plus-Size Women Are Being ‘Erased’ Due To Society’s ‘Ozempic Boom’
Ever since Ozempic and similar weight-loss jabs turned up on the scene, certain fat acceptance activists have abandoned the cause completely, seeing as they can now take an injection to get skinny and no longer have to pretend like they are overweight by choice.
Well, one person who isn’t ready to give up on the plus-size life is Lizzo, although in fairness, she has shed quite a few pounds herself, though she claims she did it all the old-fashioned way (gym & dieting).
Lizzo has now expressed concern about the ‘erasure’ of plus-size women due to Ozempic, writing a whole essay on Substack titled ‘Why is everybody losing weight and what do we do? Sincerely, a person who’s lost weight’.
She wrote: “So here we are halfway through the decade, where extended sizes are being magically erased from websites. Plus-sized models are no longer getting booked for modeling gigs.”
She added that plus-size models aren’t even plus-size anymore: “And all of our big girls are not-so-big anymore. We have a lot of work to do, to undo the effects of the Ozempic boom.”
She went on to talk about her own Ozempic-free weight loss journey: “People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making ‘being fat’ my whole personality. I had to actively work against ‘mammy’ tropes by being hypersexual and vulgar because being a mammy by definition is being desexualized.”
“And that’s the reality that nobody wants to talk about. We’re in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they’re tired of being judged.”
She also reckons the body positivity movement has become way too commercialised, whatever that’s supposed to mean.
“I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop it’s become. Because movements move.”
Obviously it’s all well and good that people feel happy and comfortable in their own skin, but I’m not sure I understand the logic around wanting people to embrace being unhealthy. I’m sure Ozempic and the like come with some risks of their own if you abuse them, but surely she should be commending people for trying to lose weight one way or another, rather than decrying an increasing lack in plus-size women.
And what about plus-size men? They exist too, you know!
In case you didn’t know, Ozempic is not actually licensed as a weight loss drug and is only prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes as it helps control blood sugar levels. However, since it works as an appetite suppressant, it can be very effective in losing weight when combined with exercise, so private prescriptions have gone through the roof.
Fair play to Lizzo for not ‘cheating’ on her own weight loss journey, but for others, Ozempic seems to be the kick up the butt they need.
Just make sure you’re not getting your skinny jabs off the black market, unless you want to end up like this lady in Manchester.
