in which the musician appeared to be declaring her intention to leave the entertainment industry. In a video posted to her Instagram on Tuesday, Lizzo said that her “I quit” statement was in reference to giving into negativity, and not creating or performing her music.
Tuesday’s post follows up on another from March 29th in which the singer, whose real name is Melissa Jefferson, said she had grown tired of “being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet” and being the constant subject of jokes about her looks.‘Am I marked by it? Yes’: Joan Burton recalls her life in a mother and baby home
Since Lizzo came to national visibility in the late 2010s following singles including Juice and Good as Hell, her size and choice to wear revealing clothing made her a heroine of the body-positivity movement but also the subject of fat-shaming comments and online ridicule. The post was captioned: “I will never shut up about how difficult y’all make it for fat people to simply exist. Minding your business is free. If the internet was limited and one comment took 24hrs to post, I wonder what social media would be like.”