Lizzo is reflecting on her therapeutic journey whereas giving the women recommendation about confidence. The “Truth Hurts” singer has confronted unfair criticism all through her profession for being a plus-size girl who embraces her curves. Nonetheless, she just lately went via a physique transformation, which she calls a “weight release,” and was criticized but once more.

However via all of it, we have seen her maintain her head excessive and proceed to gather checks and awards. Lizzo stopped by The Breakfast Membership just lately and opened up about self-love, confidence, and therapeutic.

When co-host Charlamagne Tha God requested Lizzo the distinction between confidence and therapeutic, The “Still Bad” artist replied, “I think people can fake confidence, but you can’t fake healing. You can’t be fake healed.”

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Lizzo defined how faking confidence can really allow you to in the long term. “There’s a lot of people who walk around and they can pretend to be confident and actually, I think that’s what confidence’s intention is, is to be used a little artificially. The fake it to you make,” she mentioned.

“Then, eventually you get there because my confidence, I had to force it. I had to fake it for a long time because I didn’t grow up in a world where they were like, ‘you’re beautiful’ and ‘your body is beautiful’ and ‘we like you,’ ‘we like your personality.’ ‘Yeah, you watch anime and listen to rock music, we accept you.’

I was very like ‘other’ and I think I had to be like, ‘no, you are good enough,’ ‘you are worthy of love,’ ‘your body is beautiful,’ even when I didn’t believe it. I think that eventually, if you say something enough, it can come true. You can manifest it, you can create your reality and I think I got there by faking it.”

With regards to coping with negativity, Lizzo is studying to let the not so good feedback roll off her again and provides grace. “People are as kind to others as they are to themselves and if somebody is throwing hatred or saying something mean-spirited about somebody, just for the sake of doing it, I can’t imagine how you talk to yourself,” she mentioned. I can not think about how you consider your self and deal with your self when nobody’s watching and for that, Ive already received.”

She added, “I really like the particular person I’ve change into via all of it and I feel that is the true prize. That is the true reward.”

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