Lizzo calls herself a “body icon”, says she “wasn’t supposed to be a sex symbol”

nme.com:

Lizzo has called herself a “body icon” in a new interview about beauty standards, adding that she “wasn’t supposed to be a sex symbol”.Speaking to People, the singer explained how her parents “taught me at a very young age how America treats Black people.

How it treats Black women”. She added: “I saw very quickly how we treat fat people.”“I wasn’t supposed to make it this far. I wasn’t supposed to be a millionaire.

I wasn’t supposed to be a sex symbol, but I am,” Lizzo said.“The funny, fat friend. I played that trope in high school,” she continued. “Or the friend who is gonna beat your ass ’cause she’s big.

Or it’s the big girl who’s insecure ’cause she’s big… I don’t think I’m the only kind of fat girl there is. I want us to be freed from that box we’ve been put in.”Lizzo went on to say she “had to blaze a trail” and that “there was no Lizzo before Lizzo”.“I think I have a really hot body!