Lizzo is feeling absolutely fabulous! More than two years after she embarked on a wellness journey that led to her slimming down, the 37-year-old superstar has dropped a fiery new track, firing back at her critics—including those who've insinuated that her body transformation is the result of weight-loss medication. "What you gonna say?" Lizzo, decked out in black bunny ears and sultry leopard-print lingerie, spits on the track "IDGAS," as revealed in a video posted to her Instagram on September 7. "I lost weight, let me guess, it's Ozempic," she raps, not missing a beat.
The song also bursts with bold lines like, "Tell me somethin' they don't know about me already / F--k that, I don't give a s--t." Lizzo—who previously clowned South Park’s parody of her by dressing up as a spoof package of Ozempic for Halloween—released the track months after she openly discussed the general effectiveness of the weight-loss drug. "I tried everything," the "Truth Hurts" singer confessed to host Trisha Paytas on the June 19 episode of the Just Trish podcast. "It's just the science for me. Calories in versus calories out."
"Ozempic works because you eat less food," she continued, breaking it down. "It makes you feel full. So if you can just do that on your own and get your mind over matter, it's the same result." Ultimately, Lizzo found that breaking free from her long-held vegan lifestyle and reintroducing meat into her diet helped her feel satiated in a way that plant-based foods couldn't. "When I was vegan, I was consuming a lot of fake meats," she explained. "I was eating a lot of bread. I was eating a lot of rice. And I had to eat a ton of it to stay full, but really, I was consuming like 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day."
When she started incorporating whole foods—like beef, chicken, and fish—into her meals, she noticed a significant shift. "I was actually full and not stretching my stomach by cramming it with a bunch of fake stuff that wasn't actually filling me up," Lizzo noted. The musician also didn't hold back on the stigma surrounding the use of Ozempic and other weight-loss medications. "I don't think it's easy," she said. "I did see somebody be like, 'It's a drug to help somebody with something they're struggling with.' It's their way of being fatphobic when you're telling someone they're cheating."
