Daily US Times: US singer Lizzo believes that the body positivity movement has become “commercialised” by the mainstream and hijacked by those who don’t need it.

The Grammy-winning singer made the comments while celebrating being the “first big black woman” to grace the cover of Vogue magazine.

Body positivity calls for the acceptance of all shapes and sizes of humans.

The Truth Hurts star said: “It’s commercialised. Now, you look at the hashtag ‘body positive’ and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls.”

“Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about,” she added.

The singer said she was glad the conversation had moved into the mainstream, but that she didn’t like how the people for whom the term was created “are not benefiting from it”.

The 32-year-old said: “Girls with back fat, girls with bellies that hang, girls with thighs that aren’t separated, that overlap.”

“Girls with stretch marks. You know, girls who are in the 18-plus club,” Lizzo added.

The plus-size pop star said: “They need to be benefiting from… the mainstream effect of body positivity now,”

”But with everything that goes mainstream, it gets changed. It gets – you know, it gets made acceptable,” she added.

The singer said her position as one of modern music’s most-respected names by bagging three Grammy Awards, including best pop solo performance for Truth Hurts, in January.

At this point it would be lazy of her just “to just say I’m body positive”, she said, and that the next step was to normalise bigger bodies.

She continued: “I would like to be body-normative,” she continued. “I want to normalise my body. And not just be like, ‘Ooh, look at this cool movement. Being fat is body positive’.

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