Has the body positivity movement strayed from its original purpose? Grammy-winning US singer Lizzo thinks so, saying the movement, which was created to promote a culture that appreciates and celebrates all body shapes and sizes, has become “commercialised” by the mainstream and hijacked by those who don’t need it.

She made the comments while celebrating becoming the first plus-sized black woman to grace the cover of Vogue Magazine.

“You look at the hashtag ‘body positive’ and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls- lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about,” she said.

Still, the Truth Hurts star lamented that she felt women for whom the movement was created for, have been pushed out of the dialogue. “Girls with back fat, girls with bellies that hang, girls with thighs that aren’t separated, that overlap,” she said. “Girls with stretch marks. You know, girls who are in the 18-plus club.

Ulitmiately, though, it is her hope that being fat goes from being something that needs to be celebrated overtly, but is rather seen as completely normalised.

“I would like to be body-normative; I want to normalise my body. And not just be like, ‘Ooh, look at this cool movement. Being fat is body positive,” she said.