Social media platform, TikTok, has reinstated Lizzo’s swimsuit videos after she aired them out on the app, accusing them of singling her out because of her size.
“TikTok keeps taking down my videos with me in my bathing suits,” she says in the video posted to her TikTok page. “But allows other videos with girls in bathing suits. I wonder why? TikTok … we need to talk.”
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Since uploading the video Tuesday, it has been watched more than 10.4 million times.
TikTok has denied Lizzo’s claims that her videos were taken down because of her size.
“The spokesperson told us that one of the videos initially did not appear to meet TikTok’s community guidelines because it looked like Lizzo was flashing her underwear, so it was removed,” a spokesperson told Page Six.
“However, after TikTok reviewed the video and saw that Lizzo was, in fact, wearing a bathing suit, TikTok restored the video to her page.”
The singer has been a lauded as a champion for body positivity, but Lizzo is determined to live her best life, happy in the skin she is in.
“As a black woman, I make music for people, from an experience that is from a black woman,” she told Rolling Stone in January. “I’m making music that hopefully makes other people feel good and helps me discover self-love. That message I want to go directly to black women, big black women, black trans women. Period.”
Lizzo adds, “Look, I’m new. You put two plates of food in front of people, [and] one is some fried chicken. If you like fried chicken that’s great. And the other is, like, fried ostrich pssy. You not gonna want to fck with that.”
