Lizzo says she was suicidal at the beginning of her weight-loss journey

Lizzo I was just talking about the beginning of her weight loss journey two years ago – and says she was in such a dark place at the time that she was suicidal.

The singer — who has lost 16% of her body fat — says she was severely depressed when she first started losing weight in the fall of 2023… especially now that the whole world is turning its back on her amid what she calls a brutal scandal: the sexual harassment lawsuit submitted by three of her former backup dancers.

Lizzo wrote in a Substack post This weekend, she locked out her loved ones and couldn’t trust anyone… and she was desperate to change the way she thought about her body – especially after years of being stuck in deeply toxic and abusive relationships following the death of her father in 2009.

She says weight loss has never been about trying to be thin — mainly because she thinks she’ll never fit that conventional standard anyway — but she did admit that the way she was introduced to the world as this confident, body-positive superstar was borderline emotional abuse.

Nevertheless, even as people accuse her of internalized fatphobia, Lizzo says she’s basically ruined every fat joke on the internet by losing weight—and in the end, she’ll love herself no matter what the scale says!