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The episode, which was enтιтled The End Of Obesity, aired nine months after the 36-year-old faced allegations of weight shaming by her backup dancers, which she denies.
The singer and body-positivity icon fired up her Instagram page on Tuesday to post footage of herself trying on a black bodysuit.
She first posed while wearing nothing but a white towel as she held up the bodysuit in front of her so that her followers could get a brief glimpse of it.
In the next sH๏τ, Lizzo wore the fitted garment, which is from her own Yitty line, which she launched in collaboration with Fabletics.
The new South Park episode about Lizzo centers on the famously portly Eric Cartman’s quest to obtain the popular weight-loss and diabetes medication Ozempic in order to lose some weight, despite obstacles created by a lack of funds and insurance.
In response, a doctor tells him, ‘I’m going to write you a prescription for Lizzo. She’s a really good singer who talks about body positivity, and just being happy with the way you look. I want you to listen to Lizzo five times a day, and watch her videos just before bedtime.
‘I’m afraid you’ll have to be on Lizzo for the rest of your life,’ he adds, breaking the news as if it were something fatal.
The episode goes on to offer a phony FDA disclaimer, stating, ‘Lizzo helps you eat everything you want, and keep physical activity to a minimum…. Serious side effects may include pancreaтιтis, hypothermia, and literally s****ing out of your ears.’
‘Stop listening to Lizzo if you experience suicidal thoughts,’ a disembodied voice framed as being from the agency adds.
Lizzo, unsurprisingly, reacted to the episode in the wake of gaining notoriety for focusing on body positivity in her songs and on social media.
She called the episode ‘crazy,’ though she realized that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were satirically framing her as the alternative to Ozempic.
Ozempic is a drug for diabetes that has become increasingly popular for weight-loss purposes in recent months, a phenomenon Lizzo appeared to take no issue being compared to on Saturday.
She first posed while wearing nothing but a white towel as she held up the bodysuit in front of her so that her followers could get a brief glimpse of it
The singer took to social media to react to South Park’s episode The End of Obesity on Saturday, nine months after she faced allegations of weight shaming by her backup dancers. The episode, which aired Friday on Paramount+, pokes fun at her weight and the culture surrounding body positivity
The episode centers on the famously portly Eric Cartman’s quest to obtain Ozempic in order to lose some weight, despite obstacles created by a lack of funds and insurance
In response, a doctor tells him, ‘I’m going to write you a prescription for Lizzo,’ a made-up drug that make users OK with their weight
The episode goes on to offer a phony disclaimer from the FDA, stating ‘Lizzo helps you eat everything you want, and keep physical activity to a minimum…. Serious side effects may include pancreaтιтis, hypothermia, and literally s****ing out of your ears’
In fact, she seemed to relish it as she reacred to a scene shilling the make-believe treatment bearing her name.
‘I really showed the world how to love yourself and not give a f*** to the point where these men in Colorado know who the f*** I am and put it in their cartoon that’s been around for 25 years,’ she said in a clip posted to her TikTok.
‘I showed you all how to not give a f*** and I’m going to keep on showing you how to not give a f***.’
Aside from that, the minute-and-a-half snippet appeared to leave the singer speechless, and she showed her mouth agape as showrunners Matt Stone and Trey Parker attempted to tear her a new one.
The pair have famously skewered hundreds of celebrities, ranging from the UK’s royal family to Barbra Streisand, and they have made a host of enemies over the years in the process.
Lizzo, though, did not appear to be too vexed, even as the voices of Parker and Stone issues a sequence of quips in the background.
‘I’m telling you, Shelia, these new drugs are pretty amazing,’ says one of the leading boys’ mothers at the start of the pseudo commercial, as Lizzo listens in.
‘I was feeling so ashamed of myself, watching Randy [her husband] go out and exercise all the time and not eating as much — but I just don’t have the same kind of willpower he has.’
When asked what sort of drugs she was on, mom Sharon Marsh says it’s not the costly Ozempic, but the more affordable ‘Lizzo.’
‘My doctor said they would only pay for [Ozempic and other weight loss drugs] if I had diabetes,’ the character says at a point.