Lizzo is shutting down social media rumors whereas persevering with to share her private health journey.
The four-time Grammy winner, 36, responded to an Instagram follower on Friday, Sept. 20, who questioned if she was taking Ozempic — the FDA-approved prescription treatment for individuals with kind 2 diabetes — in an effort to drop extra pounds.
In a carousel put up, Lizzo included a video of herself smiling for the digital camera, alongside a cheeky caption.
“When you finally get Ozempic allegations after 5 months of weight training and calorie deficit,” she captioned the clip, soundtracked by a well-liked TikTok audio of Christoph Waltz's character in Django Unchained saying, “It's like a reward.”
The “Juice” singer then shared a screenshot of an Instagram remark from considered one of her followers who requested, “Did she use Ozempic or did she snort coke.”
“‘oZeMpIc oR cOkE?' – a fan 😭😭😭😭,” Lizzo captioned the put up, which confirmed that she additionally responded to the particular person in her remark part: “Whyyyy do u follow me?😭😭😭😭.”
In current months, Lizzo — who has teased that she has been making “the BEST music of my life” within the studio recently — has given followers a number of behind-the-scenes seems at how she's preserving lively throughout what she is looking a “gap year.” She has proven herself doing all the pieces from arm workouts on the gymnasium to leaping rope on a balcony.
In a TikTok video posted on Thursday, Sept. 19, the musician confirmed off her physique as she wore a glance from her shapewear model Yitty in a before-and-after have a look at her transformation. She soundtracked the video with a viral Nicki Minaj TikTok sound that goes, “The fact that you would even discuss my looks is insane. I’m a bad bitch, always been a bad bitch.”
“Fine each methods 😮💨,” Lizzo captioned the clip.
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When displaying off her efforts within the gymnasium, Lizzo has additionally shared some encouraging messages together with her followers. Last month, the “Truth Hurts” singer wrote, “If you’re reading this… remember you can do ANYTHING you put ur mind to! Stay focused, you got this 💪🏾.”
Back in May, Lizzo shed some mild on her health journey, emphasizing in a TikTok clip that she was “not making an attempt to flee fatness” and that once she “began figuring out for psychological well being,” exercise has helped “shift my thoughts.”
“I have a very high-performance job,” she defined. “For 90 minutes a night, I have to do choreography, I have to sing, I have to dance, I have to rap and I have to play the flute. And I have to emote, and hype a crowd in very tight clothes, sometimes clothes where it restricts my breathing.”
“It's fun. I love my job. But it takes a lot of physical endurance to do what I do, and I used to be very rockstar lifestyle, used to throw myself around on the stage,” Lizzo continued. “As I got more professional in my career, I started to take the physical part more seriously.”
