Emma McIntyre/Getty
NEED TO KNOW
Lizzo clapped back after seeing a "fat joke" about her go viral
The singer posted a bikini selfie and reminded fans to "NEVER let anyone shame you for what you choose to do with your body"
She finished the message by telling haters to mind their own business
Lizzofired back at trolls who made a "dumb joke" about her weight — and reminded everyone that their bodies are "not FOR them. It's for you."
"Today I saw a fat joke about me — in 2025 — and it was viral," the"Love in Real Life"singer, 37, wrote alongside a photo she posted toInstagramDec. 4. In the caption for the photo — taken from the neck down, while she sits poolside in a yellow snake-print string bikini — the singer acknowledged that the viral comment was "a dumb joke," but didn't specify what was said.
"They were just laughing at me because I'm fat…. Let me be a reminder to everyone to NEVER let anyone shame you for what you choose to do with your body. Because when you're big they talk s---, when you're small they talk s---," she wrote. "Your body will never be good enough for them because it's not FOR them. It's for you."
The musician, whose full name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, went on to emphasize that point: "If I get aBBLmind ur business, if lose 100lbs mind ur business, if I gain every pound back and then some… mind ur f------ business."
She signed off with a clapback for those who want to talk about her appearance: "Anyways.. my fat ass stays living with a paid off mortgage in yall bitches heads. 🥱."
The singer has been candid about her ongoing fitness journey — and how she's been judged for being overweight, then judged for losing weight — addressing it in "IDGAS," a track from her mixtape,My Face Still Hurts from Smiling.
"What you gonna say? I throw ass on the 'net for attention. What you gonna say? I lost weight. Let me guess, is that Ozempic?" she rapped in the track.
The speculation that Lizzo took Ozempic or a similarGLP-1 medicationto lose weight has followed the singer throughout her health journey. She previously said she's"tried everything" to lose weight, but has alwaysdenied claimsof using medication long-term: "I work my ass off, training 3x a week, daily sauna & cardio, adding animal protein back into my diet, hiring a chef who helps me meal prep and keeps track of what I put into my body in a calorie deficit," she wrote in July in a now-deleted Instagram post.
Stefanie Keenan/Getty
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
She recently addressed how the focus on her weight has impacted her career in apersonal essaypublished on Substack. "People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making 'being fat'my whole personality," she wrote in the Nov. 23 essay. "I had to actively work against 'mammy' tropes by being hypersexual and vulgar because being a mammy by definition is being desexualized."
"And that's the reality that nobody wants to talk about," she wrote. "We're in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they're tired of being judged."
"I want us to allow thebody positive movementto expand and grow far away from the commercial slop it's become," she continued. "Because movementsmove."
Read the original article onPeople
