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Feeling deflated? Lizzo and The GC are sending a positive message to all women

Lizzo has posted a bootylicious video of a fitness routine that would make champion boxer Anthony Joshua short of breath. And with it the singer has sent a message to body-shamers, ‘It may come as a surprise to some of y’all that I’m not working out to have your ideal body type, I’m working out to have my ideal body type. And you know what type that is? None of your **** ing business.’

You tell ’em, girl. Lizzo says she’s been training consistently for five years. If the weights, squats and skipping ropes she’s rocking in the clip are anything to go by, there is no doubt she is as fit as a flute!

Of course if your weight is causing health problems, do something about it. Gemma Collins says she has shifted 3st to make it easier for her to conceive a baby. She praised her doctor, saying, ‘He gave me the confidence not to panic. He told me to lose a few stone and it will help. I’m cooking my own meals, riding my bike and enjoying long walks.’ The GC’S still relatively curvy but happy in her own skin, and healthy. That should be what we all aim for, regardless of what others think.

Even some of the fittest women in the world are subjected to ridiculously narrow body shape ideals. Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw recorded what was at the time the third highest indoor jump in history, only to be told straight after, ‘You’ve got a bit of puppy fat, you need to lose it.’

As Lizzo says at the end of her film, ‘I am beautiful, I am strong, I do my job, and I stay on my job.’