Lizzo wears thong bikini as she hits back at 'delusional' body shamers during impassioned speech... after saying she 'likes being fat'

By Heidi Parker For Dailymail.com

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Lizzo hit back at body shamers on Friday in a video shared to Twitter.

The 34-year-old singer posed in a strappy bikini on a white sand beach in a tropical setting as she shared exactly how she feels about haters who pick on her for her size.

'The discourse around bodies is officially tired!' she began before telling haters they are 'delusion' about beauty standards during her lengthy and impassioned speech.

Take that! Lizzo hit back at body shamers on Friday in a video shared to Twitter. The 34-year-old singer posed in a strappy bikini on a white sand beach in a tropical setting as she shared exactly how she feels about haters who pick on her for her size

Take that! Lizzo hit back at body shamers on Friday in a video shared to Twitter. The 34-year-old singer posed in a strappy bikini on a white sand beach in a tropical setting as she shared exactly how she feels about haters who pick on her for her size

'I have seen comments go from "oh my gosh I liked you when you were thick why did you lose weight?" to "oh my God why did you get a BBO [Brazilian Butt Lift] I liked your body before,"' she rattled off.

Then she said she didn't like to hear, "I liked your body before to OMG you are so fat you need to lose weight for your health," or "OMG you are so thin," to "OMG why did she get so much work done?"'

The About Damn Time hitmaker then stopped all of a sudden before saying, 'Are we OK?'

Smack it: 'The discourse around bodies is officially tired!' she began before telling haters they are 'delusion' about beauty standards during her lengthy and impassioned speech

Smack it: 'The discourse around bodies is officially tired!' she began before telling haters they are 'delusion' about beauty standards during her lengthy and impassioned speech

Stop judging Lizzo: She told criticis

Stop judging Lizzo: 'I have seen comments go from "oh my gosh I liked you when you were thick why did you lose weight?" to "oh my God why did you get a BBO [Brazilian Butt Lift] I liked your body before,"' she rattled off

The star looked exasperated. 'Do you see the delusion?'

She then commented that musicians are not here to set beauty standards. 'Artists are here to make art and this body is art,' she said.

'I'm gonna do whatever I want with this body,' she remarked before she smacked her bottom.

A singer not a model: She then commented that musicians are not here to set beauty standards. 'Artists are here to make art and this body is art,' she said

A singer not a model: She then commented that musicians are not here to set beauty standards. 'Artists are here to make art and this body is art,' she said

The Michigan native then said she wished that people were charged money to make comments so everyone can see 'how much time we are f***ing wasting on the wrong thing.'

The clip then ends suddenly with the crooner saying she wants this all to be behind her. 

In March she told People she loves her plus-sized figure and is happy to be redefining beauty standards. 

'I think I have a really hot body! I'm a body icon, and I'm embracing that more and more every day,' the Truth Hurts singer told the site.

Feeling herself! Lizzo talked loving her 'hot body', redefining beauty standards, and embracing her plus size figure in an interview with People

Feeling herself! Lizzo talked loving her 'hot body', redefining beauty standards, and embracing her plus size figure in an interview with People 

Lizzo has become a champion for body positivity in her music and on social media, where she frequently posts sultry snaps of her flaunting her curvy body.

The empowered superstars sees herself one day defining what it means to be beautiful.

'It may not be one person's ideal body type just like, say, Kim Kardashian might not be someone's ideal, but she's a body icon and has created a modern-day beauty standard,' she told the site.

'And what I'm doing is stepping into my confidence and my power to create my own beauty standard. And one day that will just be the standard.'

'Stepping into my confidence and my power': The empowered superstars sees herself one day defining what it means to be beautiful; seen in 2021

'Stepping into my confidence and my power': The empowered superstars sees herself one day defining what it means to be beautiful; seen in 2021

Lizzo also discussed loving her curvy figure and overcoming stereotypes women with similar figures like her encounter.

'Okay, we all know I'm fat,' she told the site. 'I know I'm fat. It doesn't bother me. I like being fat, and I'm beautiful and I'm healthy. So can we move on?'

She rattled off the labels women with figures like her are dealt with: 'The funny, fat friend. I played that trope in high school. Or the friend who is gonna beat your a** 'cause she's big. Or it's the big girl who's insecure 'cause she's big.

'I don't think I'm the only kind of fat girl there is,' she says after a pause. 'I want us to be freed from that box we've been put in.'

Speaking up! Lizzo has become a champion for body positivity in her music and on social media, where she frequently posts sultry snaps of her flaunting her curvy body; seen this week

Speaking up! Lizzo has become a champion for body positivity in her music and on social media, where she frequently posts sultry snaps of her flaunting her curvy body; seen this week

Lizzo, meanwhile, has won raves with her show Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.

The series follows ten hopefuls as they compete at the chance to dance backup for the songstress on her world tour.

'Global superstar Lizzo is on the hunt for the next big thing,' begins the show's official synopsis.

While competing for the top prize, the ten competitors live all together in the Big Grrrls House, where tensions are bound to boil. Lizzo hosted the eight-episode unscripted series and serves as executive producer.

Lizzo's Watch Out For The Big Grrrls is part of the Juice songstress' first-look deal with Amazon Studios, which she signed in 2020.

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