Lizzo followers are exhibiting their loyalty on social media to the three-time Grammy Award-winner, quipping again at a comic who made degrading remarks about her weight this week.
When requested about Lizzo’s music and songwriting in a video interview, Aries Spears stated that he “cannot recover from that she appears to be like just like the s— emoji.”
“She’s received a really fairly face, however she retains exhibiting her physique off,” he stated. Spears continued, saying he is not probably the most “in form,” however is good-looking sufficient to draw girls.
“However a girl that is constructed like a plate of mashed potatoes is in hassle,” he added.
Spears informed the interviewer that he has a problem with “girls’s hypocrisy,” explaining that ladies should be “extra actual” with each other, like telling a buddy to “put the éclair down. It is treadmill time.”
A clip of the interview was shared on Twitter, amassing greater than 3 million views in simply two days.
Effectively, Lizzo-lovers had been having none of it, with a number of coming immediately for the comic and the insensitive nature of his remarks.
“Aries Spears is a fragile baby who’s throwing a tantrum as a result of Lizzo resides in her genuine reality and his ugly rant is a failed disguise for the damage he feels for the dearth of help in his profession as a fats Black entertainer,” @tenilleclarke1 wrote in a tweet. “THIS is what you name projectionism. Actually unhappy.”
One other person, @chefmade_92, wrote, “I’m appalled by the dearth of self consciousness. He respiration heavy sitting down. Lizzo is in nice form as a performer. She twerks, sings, dance, and play an instrument on the identical time.”
“The unhappy factor about the entire Lizzo/Aries Spears state of affairs is that the final particular person she must be getting hate from is a fats black man. Not solely it’s internalized fatphobia, however misogynoir as properly,” wrote @metsin6.
“The true query is why are people even interviewing Aries Spears within the two thousand twenty second 12 months of our lord?” @Still_Birdy wrote.
“It’s not even that Aries Spears being chubby and hideous makes him ineligible to talk on Lizzo. No one must be talking on her physique, idc how they give the impression of being,” @OkSoMik wrote.
In a video from @msolurin, a person named Olayemi Olurin stated she would not know what sort of physique dysmorphia Spears might must make these feedback. “It is giving hater. It is giving jealous.”
“I’m actually blown away that Aries Spears had the massive mouthed audacity to assault Lizzo for being fats. He’s a fats Black man encouraging us to weaponize fatphobia towards Lizzo, the maths simply ain’t mathing,” she captioned the video.
Olurin added that she’s watched Spears’ comedy for years and by no means thought that he cannot carry out on account of his weight, saying the identical outlook must be given to Lizzo.
Whereas Lizzo has but to publicly reply to Spears’ viral assaults, the comic responded to social media customers dragging his look whereas defending the “About Rattling Time” singer.
“A variety of you girls are humorous with the critiques. I am not humorous. I am fats. I am not enticing. No girl needs me,” he stated in a video shared to his Instagram web page. “They at all times attempt to damage you with what works for you probably the most. That is what they attempt to damage you with.”
“You deal in emotion and anger,” he later added. “Provide you with one thing that is not subjective, me being unfunny, unattractive, that is not a truth. That is subjective. Cease main with emotion and anger and include details.”
This is not the primary time a celeb has singled out Lizzo and her physique throughout an interview. In 2020, when Jillian Michaels was requested about Lizzo’s model of physique acceptance, the previous “Largest Loser” coach bristled.
“Why are we celebrating her physique? Why does it matter? Why aren’t we celebrating her music? As a result of it isn’t going to be superior if she will get diabetes?” Michaels stated. “I really like her music. My child loves her music. However there’s by no means a second the place I’m like, ‘I’m so glad that she’s chubby!’ Why can we even care? Why is it my job to even care about her weight?”
After Michaels was criticized for her selection of phrases, she doubled down on her feedback and issued an announcement on Instagram advising her followers to “prioritize their well being.”
“As I’ve acknowledged repeatedly, we’re all stunning, worthy, and equally deserving,” she wrote on Instagram on the time. “I additionally really feel strongly that we love ourselves sufficient to acknowledge there are critical well being penalties that include weight problems — coronary heart illness, diabetes, most cancers to call just a few.”
In April, Lizzo launched a shapewear line known as YITTY, telling TODAY that she needed to “liberate individuals” from being uncomfortable and ashamed of their our bodies.
“I do not assume a 12 or 13-year-old lady ought to have to vary her physique,” Lizzo stated. “I must be going to high school, having enjoyable.”
YITTY’s shapewear runs from measurement 6X to XS, because the star’s model promotes the concept of clothes for “each single physique.” Customers can buy bodysuits, undergarments, leggings, sweatshirts and shapewear units, amongst different objects.
The celebrity’s success has continued this 12 months, as she was nominated for six Emmy Awards, telling TODAY co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb that she “already appears like a winner.”
After acting on the plaza in July, Lizzo informed Savannah and Hoda, “It appears like Christmas and my birthday.”
