Lizzo, the Grammy Award-winning singer and style entrepreneur, on Friday declared “I QUIT” on Instagram after citing on-line criticism she’s confronted.
“I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet,” she wrote. “All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it. But I’m starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it.”
The publish went on to say how she has confronted ridicule, and ended together with her declaration about quitting.
“I’m constantly up against lies being told about me for clout & views,” she added. “Being the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look … my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name.”
Representatives for Lizzo couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Saturday.
Messages of help flooded the feedback part of her Instagram publish, together with from the hip-hop pioneer Queen Latifah, the comedian Eric André and the style illustrator and designer Hayden Williams.
“The internet isn’t real life,” the actress Sophia Bush wrote. “Protect you. We love you.”
Lizzo, born Melissa Jefferson, rose to fame with No. 1 hits like “Truth Hurts” in 2017 and “About Damn Time” in 2022, and her catalog of feel-good funk and pop with lyrics targeted on empowerment.
Her voice was commanding on data and candid in public, the place she stays outspoken about physique positivity. In 2022, she launched Yitty, a line of shapewear “designed for all body types,” based on the model’s web site.
However her efforts to advertise these beliefs have typically been met with mockery.
Her assertion on Friday was not the primary time the singer has instructed that she may go away the music business. In 2023, she made her Twitter account personal on a number of events after waves of body-shaming feedback.
“Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting,” she posted earlier than locking her account.
The assertion on Friday contrasts with a March 17 Instagram publish, wherein she wrote that she was “writing some of the best music and I’m so excited for y’all to hear.”
Regardless of the pushback she has acquired, Lizzo has continued to search out success.
She has received 4 Grammy Awards and an Emmy for “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” a actuality sequence that follows a bunch of aspiring dancers. In 2023, her music was featured within the blockbuster movie “Barbie,” and this 12 months she promoted a new swimwear line beneath her style model.
Her assertion on Friday comes within the midst of several lawsuits filed final 12 months in opposition to Lizzo by a designer and, individually, three of her former backup dancers who accused the singer of making a hostile work atmosphere throughout a 2023 tour. Lizzo has repeatedly denied the allegations.
In December 2023, she filed a motion to dismiss the designer’s lawsuit. Final month, a choose denied a motion she requested to dismiss the lawsuit filed by her dancers. The choose dismissed a number of the claims however allowed the case to maneuver to trial.
