- Critics couldn't stop commenting on a viral video of Lizzo twerking in a cutout shirtdress at a Lakers game over the weekend.
- Lizzo took to Instagram defending her choice to feel confident in her own skin.
Lizzo is clapping back at those who criticized her courtside twerking and showing off her thong at a Los Angeles Lakers–Minnesota Timberwolves basketball game this past Sunday.
During the game, the Lakers dance team performed a routine to Lizzo’s hit song “Juice,” which led to cameras panning to Lizzo sitting courtside, who as a result, got up and did what she does best: twerked for her fans while showing off her cutout T-shirt dress, sexy fishnet tights, and her exposed matching black thong. Though the crowd stood up and cheered as Lizzo showed off her risque attire, cameras quickly cut back to the dancers.
The “Good as Hell” singer took to her Instagram Story to defend her choice to be unapologetically confident in her skin and ask why her self-assurance with her body shape and size still unnecessarily offends others.
“I’m a really solid, grounded person, and I know that I’m shocking because you’ve never seen—in a long time—a body like mine doing whatever it wants to do and dressing the way that it dresses and moving the way that it moves,” said Lizzo. “I’m not going to shrink myself because somebody thinks that I’m not sexy to them.”
Lizzo has made it a mission to promote body positivity, confidence, and self-love to her fans in the midst of a whirlwind year for the pop star. In 2019 alone, she broke the record for having the longest-running number one song atop the Billboard charts by a solo female rapper with “Truth Hurts” (two years after its initial release), and she’s walking into the 62nd Grammy Awards with a staggering eight nominations.
“I want you to know that even if you’re going through something and it doesn’t feel good that you will feel good again. You have whatever it takes to feel good again,” Lizzo preached to her fans via her Instagram Story. “If I can make it, I know you can make it.”
Bianca Betancourt is the culture editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com, where she covers all things film, TV, music, and more. When she's not writing, she loves impulsively baking a batch of cookies, re-listening to the same early-2000s pop playlist, and stalking Mariah Carey's Twitter feed.
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