Lizzo’s weight and body type have often stolen the spotlight away from her immense musical talent and it looks like that isn’t changing anytime soon.
On Monday (December 13), the Grammy Award-winning artist found herself a trending Twitter topic after she shared a pair of TikTok videos revealing she’d just completed a 10-day smoothie fast. In one clip, she shows her progression from Day 1 to Day 10 and explains why she embarked on the crash diet.
“So I drank a lot and I ate a lot of food that fucked my stomach up in Mexico,” she says in the clip. “So I decided to do JJ Smith’s 10-day smoothie plan.”
Lizzo began trending on Twitter Tuesday, catching flak online for undergoing a juice cleanse that provoked criticism the body-positivity singer is “promoting diet culture.”
On Monday, the Grammy-winner posted a video on Instagram that she was doing a detox based on a 10-day plan from New York Times best-selling author and weight-loss nutritionist JJ Smith.
Lizzo re-assured her followers however, she wasn’t participating to lose weight.
“So I did the 10-day smoothie detox and as you know I would normally be so afraid and ashamed to post things like this online because I feel like as a big girl people just expect if you are doing something for health you’re doing it for like a dramatic weight loss,” Lizzo said in a follow-up video. “And that is not the case.”