Lizzo is still left stunned by new South Park being overweight episode that mocks her pounds

Lizzo has shared her feelings on a new South Park episode that pokes enjoyable at her body weight.

The singer took to social media to react to ‘The Close of Obesity’ 9 months after she faced allegations of excess weight-shaming by her backup dancers, which she nonetheless denies.

The episode facilities around famously portly Eric Cartman’s quest to get Ozempic to drop some fat, and hurdles created by a absence of money and insurance. 

In response, a physician tells him, ‘I’m likely to publish you a prescription for Lizzo. She’s a seriously superior singer who talks about physique positivity, and just getting pleased with the way you appear. I want you to pay attention to Lizzo five occasions a working day, and enjoy her films just in advance of bedtime. 

‘I’m scared you will have to be on Lizzo for the rest of your daily life,’ he provides, breaking the information as if it had been something deadly.

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The episode goes on to give a phony disclaimer from the Fda, stating ‘Lizzo helps you eat almost everything you want, and preserve physical action to a minimum…. Significant aspect effects might incorporate pancreatitis, hypothermia, and virtually s****ing out of your ears.’    

‘Stop listening to Lizzo if you knowledge suicidal views,’ a disembodied voice framed as getting from the agency goes on to incorporate.

Lizzo, unsurprisingly, reacted, after obtaining notoriety for  themes of human body positivity identified in equally her tunes and social media.

The 36-year-previous in flip termed the episode ‘crazy’, realizing creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were satirically framing her as the option to Ozempic. 

Ozempic is a drug for diabetic issues that has develop into more and more popular for body weight-loss needs in modern months – a phenomenon Lizzo Saturday appeared to take no problem currently being in contrast to.

In fact, she relished in it, reacting to a scene shilling the make-believe procedure bearing her title.

‘I actually showed the environment how to love yourself and not give a f**k to the place where by these adult males in Colorado know who the f**k I am and place it in their cartoon which is been all-around for 25 years,’ she claimed in a clip posted to her TikTok.

‘I confirmed you all how to not give a f**k and I am heading to keep on demonstrating you how to not give a f**k.’

Apart from that, the minute and a 50 percent snippet appeared to depart the singer speechless, with her mouth remaining agape as showrunners Matt Stone and Trey Parker tried to tear her a new one particular.

The pair have famously skewered hundreds of celebs ranging from the UK’s royal family to Barbra Streisand, creating a host of enemies more than the years in the system.

Lizzo, although, did not appear so vexed – even as the voices of Parker and Stone difficulties a sequence of quips in the background.

‘I’m telling you, Shelia – these new medications are fairly astounding,’ says one of the primary boys’ mothers at the get started of the pseudo business, as Lizzo listens in.

‘I was experience so ashamed of myself, observing Randy [her husband] go out and physical exercise all the time and not ingesting as a lot – but I just really don’t have the very same sort of willpower he has.’

When requested what sort of medications she was on, mother Sharon Marsh says  it can be not the highly-priced Ozempic, but the more affordable ‘Lizzo.’ 

‘My physician mentioned they would only spend for [Ozempic and other weight loss drugs] if I had diabetic issues,’ the character says at a position.

‘But if you can not pay for them, how are you handling your fat,’ fellow character Shelia Brovloski asks.

‘Didn’t you know, Shelia? Now you will find a total new being overweight drug for those people of us who cannot afford Ozempic. I controlled all my cravings to be thinner with Lizzo!’ the other mom solutions – prior to Stone and Parker just take around with a characteristic jingle for a make-believe that drug that will make the consumer not care how significant they are.

‘FDA-authorized Lizzo tends to make you really feel foodstuff about your weight,’ an informercial-esque voice asserts as Sharon holds a tube of topical medicine marked ‘Lizzo.’

The mom, in turn, provides: ‘I’ve reduced my criteria, an expectations!’

Sooner or later, lover favorite Cartman – whose comedy arrives from his dimensions – goes to the doctor’s workplace in hopes of scoring Ozempic amid the excess weight-reduction trend, but hits a snag as his professional medical coverage won’t cover the drug designed for diabetes patients.

The physician feels poor for Eric and tells him he is going to pen him a prescription for Lizzo, which seemingly only offers users with a mindset that sees it as suitable as being overweight.

Later on in the episode Cartman declares: ‘Rich people today get Ozempic, weak people today get body positivity’ – poking entertaining at celebs these kinds of as Elon Musk and Chelsea Handler who have owned up to using the pricey drug meant for diabetics.

The special South Park: The End Of Weight problems is now up for streaming on Paramount+.

 Last July, dancers Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez, Crystal Williams submitted a lawsuit in opposition to Lizzo, alleging she experienced pounds shamed them in an interview NBC Information.

It accused the singer of sexual harassment and creating a hostile operate atmosphere – one particular rife with pounds shaming, unsanctioned firings, and discriminations in excess of a meant wellness issue. 

Just about every accused the singer of pressuring one of them to contact a nude performer in a strip club, a assert that Lizzo, like the many others, denies.

She issued a assertion insisting she was ‘not the villain’ in the case, which was place on hold last March although Lizzo challenges a January ruling that turned down her effort to dismiss the fit underneath a statute that can make it less complicated to immediately conclusion meritless lawsuits that threaten absolutely free speech.    

Immediately after the singer broke her silence on the match – which is set to resume in a issue of months – the accusers expressed outrage above what they referred to as a ‘disheartening’ response from the singer. 

Williams explained to Channel 4: ‘Initially for me it just more deepened my disappointment in regards to how I was emotion and how I was handled.’ 

‘I imagine the overall theme in all this is that our experiences ended up our ordeals and our traumas have been our traumas. In bringing that forward, it feels like it was disregarded fully. It feels like we were designed out to be placing out phony allegations when that is not the circumstance.’

‘So yes, it was very disheartening to examine and sense overlooked particularly when she stands for what she stands for in regards to women’s empowerment – becoming an advocate for psychological health and fitness – becoming an advocate for system positivity – and to just further confirm that that’s not the case, due to the fact almost nothing was acknowledged in that assertion.’

Rodriguez agreed, introducing: ‘It’s shocking to read through a statement like that. In her terms and the way she’s saying this, it is really invalidating not only our experience that she was there very first-hand to witness […] but also other women of all ages who have formerly worked with her that have appear forward in light-weight of this.

‘She pointed out something in this statement [around] guarding girls – where by was that identical sentiment when I said to her and preferred to converse out points and declaring ‘I’m resigning for the reason that I come to feel unsafe, I truly feel unheard, I’m disrespected’?’

Davis explained: ‘A individual can do excellent items, extremely good items and these don’t go away. The goodness you put out into the world – it stays there. 

‘But two issues can be real at the exact time. An individual that does very good issues can also do can do negative issues and the sentiment applies […] Persons have been affected, it’s not just us […] The regularity of wrongdoing is quite telling.

‘I appear up to the point she was applying her platform to address troubles that other artists weren’t undertaking but knowing her now, it was performative.’

The dancers are trying to get damages for emotional distress, unpaid wages, reduction of earnings and lawyer’s expenses for the allegations, which includes sexual, religious and racial harassment, disability discrimination and phony imprisonment. 

The volume they are seeking has nevertheless to be created general public.