Lizzo knows she deserves to be where she’s at. The singer, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson, chats to People for the magazine’s “Women Changing the World” issue about body positivity, Black Lives Matter, her huge success, and more.
The 33-year-old insists, “I deserve the spotlight. I deserve the attention. I’m talented, I’m young, I’m hot, you know? And I’ve worked hard.” “I had to blaze a trail,” she admits. “There was no Lizzo before Lizzo.” READ MORE: Lizzo Talks Eddie Murphy Movies, Auditioning For ‘The Little Mermaid’ & The Challenges Of Fame Talking about being a Black woman in America, Lizzo shares: “I grew up in a family that was very proud of our Blackness. “I don’t think my dad wanted to tell us about the gruesome murders that happen to Black people all the time.
But Black parents have this responsibility to let their children know what can happen. They taught me at a very young age how America treats Black people.
How it treats Black women. And I saw very quickly how we treat fat people.” Lizzo may have been “cynical” at first but insists: “I was like, ‘OK, what can I do with this?
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