Lizzo is speaking her truth - and this time, she is speaking it for every woman the media got wrong.
The 37-year-old singer appeared on Monica Lewinsky's podcast Reclaiming on March 24 and did not hold back when the conversation turned to how women's bodies were treated by the media in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Lewinsky shared that she once sobbed for hours over a cruel caricature of herself published at the height of her public scandal - and Lizzo met that vulnerability with her own.
"Sometimes I'm actually, like, deeply offended by how the media talked about y'all's bodies," Lizzo said, pointing specifically to the backlash Jessica Simpson faced in 2009 over a pair of high-waisted jeans that generated cruel headlines and, as Simpson later revealed, damaged her confidence on stage for years.
For Lizzo, those jeans are now her everyday staple. "The only jeans that I wear," she said.
The conversation quickly became something larger than fashion. Lizzo reflected on how dramatically the conversation around women's bodies has shifted - and how little credit the current generation gives to how brutal those earlier standards actually were.
"I don't think this new generation understands how intense and how strict and harsh society is, and was, on women's bodies," she said. "Especially bodies that, by today's standards, people would say present as thin."
When her own body changed in recent years, Lizzo said some fans questioned whether her body positivity message had been genuine all along. Her response was clear - she changed because she loved herself enough to do so, not in spite of it.
"Your body is going to change and you should embrace that change," she said. "Every single day, you change - you have to keep up with that. And that's what body positivity is."
For people of faith, the message carries real resonance. Scripture reminds us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made - not by the standards of any era's media cycle, but by the God who created every body with intention and purpose. That truth does not change with trends. It never has.
