Yesterday, Vogue revealed its October 2020 cover star – singer Lizzo. Within the accompanying interview, she discussed the body positivity movement and the way she believes it’s turn into “commercialised”. 

“I’m glad that this conversation is being included within the mainstream narrative,” she said. “(But) now, you have a look at the hashtag ‘body positive,’ and also you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls. Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is all the time about.”

The singer says that the changes happened when the movement became mainstream, to the detriment of the people it’s meant to champion. “What I don’t like is how the those who this term was created for aren’t benefiting from it. Girls with back fat, girls with bellies that hang, girls with thighs that aren’t separated, that overlap. Girls with stretch marks. You already know, girls who’re within the 18-plus club. They have to be benefiting from…the mainstream effect of body positivity now,” she continued. 

Somewhat than being pushed as a body positivity role model, Lizzo says would favor to make use of the term body normativity. “I would like to normalise my body,” she explains. “Not only be like: ‘Ooh, have a look at this cool movement. Being fat is body positive.’ No, being fat is normal.”

Lizzo is just not alone in her rejection of body posivity. Many have adopted body neutrality as a way of addressing the opposite movement’s shortcomings – read more here on it.