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 uninterested in placing up with being dragged by everybody in my life and on the web,” she wrote. “All I would like is to make music and make folks joyful and assist the world be a little bit higher than how I discovered it. However I’m beginning to really feel just like the world doesn’t need me in it.”
The submit went on to say how she has confronted ridicule, and ended together with her declaration about quitting.
“I’m continually up in opposition to lies being advised about me for clout & views,” she added. “Being the butt of the joke each single time due to how I look … my character being picked aside by individuals who don’t know me and disrespecting my identify.”
Representatives for Lizzo couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Saturday.
Messages of assist flooded the feedback part of her Instagram submit, together with from the hip-hop pioneer Queen Latifah, the comedian Eric André and the style illustrator and designer Hayden Williams.
“The web isn’t actual life,” the actress Sophia Bush wrote. “Defend you. We love you.”
Lizzo, born Melissa Jefferson, rose to fame with No. 1 hits like “Fact Hurts” in 2017 and “About Rattling Time” in 2022, and her catalog of feel-good funk and pop with lyrics centered on empowerment.
Her voice was commanding on information and candid in public, the place she stays outspoken about physique positivity. In 2022, she launched Yitty, a line of shapewear “designed for all physique varieties,” in line with 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 urged that she would possibly depart the music business. In 2023, she made her Twitter account non-public on a number of events after waves of body-shaming feedback.
“Y’all don’t understand how shut I be to giving up on everybody and quitting,” she posted earlier than locking her account.
The assertion on Friday contrasts with a March 17 Instagram submit, wherein she wrote that she was “writing a number of the finest music and I’m so excited for y’all to listen to.”
Regardless of the pushback she has acquired, Lizzo has continued to seek out success.
She has received 4 Grammy Awards and an Emmy for “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Large Grrrls,” a actuality collection 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 brand new swimwear line underneath her style model.
Her assertion on Friday comes within the midst of a number of 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 surroundings throughout a 2023 tour. Lizzo has repeatedly denied the allegations.
In December 2023, she filed a movement to dismiss the designer’s lawsuit. Final month, a decide denied a movement she requested to dismiss the lawsuit filed by her dancers. The decide dismissed a number of the claims however allowed the case to maneuver to trial.