The Real Reason Lizzo is Flopping (it's not what you think)

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Lizzo spent about six years being treated as proof that the body positivity movement worked. She was the example everyone pointed to, the one who made it look like the culture had actually changed. Then she lost weight, and the same people who used her as evidence decided she had betrayed them.

In this video, I go all the way back to Minneapolis, before the Grammys, before Truth Hurts, before anyone had decided what she was supposed to represent.

We get into how her body became her brand and who actually made that decision, where body positivity came from in the first place and what it looked like before brands got hold of it, and what happened when she stopped fitting the role she had been cast in. The lawsuits, the album, the Substack essay, all of it.

Because the thing nobody wants to say out loud is that loving your body was always conditional. It was fine right up until you could afford to change it.

So was body positivity ever a real movement, or was it just a holding pattern for women who had not yet reached the body everyone actually wanted?

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