Glamsquad Magazine December 2022

FEATURE
and dad, Michael, an entrepreneur
who died of a stroke when she was
20. A self-described nerd, Lizzo
learned how to play the flute in fifth
grade. In high school, she was in the
marching band and trained with the
Houston Ballet Orchestra.
By that point Lizzo (first it was
Lissa; then, inspired by JAY-Z, the S’s
became Z’s) knew two things. One,
what she wanted to do. Two, the
kind of world she was about to enter.
“I grew up in a family that was very
proud of our Blackness,” she says.
In 2017 she released “Truth Hurts.”
It took two years for the song to
become a hit, after finding popularity
on TikTok and being used in the Netflix
movie Someone Great. She added it
to her third album, ‘Cuz I Love You (in
the music video, she marries herself),
and the song’s viral lyric “100 percent
that bitch” became part of the
cultural lexicon.
Lizzo Says ‘Nothing Changed’
When She Became Famous: Her
‘Anxiety’ and ‘Depression’ ‘Didn’t Go
Away’
As Lizzo’s music took off—she’s
earned three Grammys, two Soul
Train Awards and millions of fans—
her body became a topic of
conversation. “Okay, we all know I’m
fat,” she says with a sigh. “I know I’m
fat. It doesn’t bother me. I like being
fat, and I’m beautiful and I’m healthy.
So can we move on?”
Lizzo lists the stereotypes women
like her face: “The funny, fat friend. I
played that trope in high school. 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.”
She pauses. “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.”
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