Lizzo simply figured it was about damn time to start feeling better.
So though part of her platinum-selling, Grammy-and-Emmy-winning Big Grrrl brand was being proud AF of how she looked, sounded and moved through the world exactly as she was, the artist born Melissa Jefferson knew she had to make some adjustments to improve her health, from head to toe.
“Once I started working out for mental health, to have balanced mental health or endorphins, so that I don’t look at myself in the mirror and feel ashamed of myself, and feel disgusted with myself,” she explained in a May 2023 TikTok, “exercise has helped me shift my mind, not my body.”
Yet Lizzo’s shape inevitably shifted as she got into Pilates (initially to heal her back before it became a must) and strength-training along with taking regular walks.
“I like to walk,” she noted in a February 2024 TikTok, “because any stress, any anxiety, any tension, any anger that I’ve had in my body, I kind of forget about it by the time I’m done walking.”
