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Jamie Roberts

Lizzo threatens to quit career as vile trolls continue to send mean weight insults

Lizzo has seemingly had enough of the online abuse sent in her direction and has threatened to quit her career.

The About Damn Time songstress, 35, often hits back at the cruel jibes with messages of body positivity, but it seems as though enough is enough.

The Michigan native, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, took huge offence to a recent online comment by author Layah Heilpern.

The tweet read: "How is Lizzo still THIS fat when she’s constantly moving this much on stage?! I wonder what she must be eating."

The proud plus-size fashion icon wasn't prepared to let the comment go unchallenged, reposting the words alongside the caption: "JUST logged on and the app and this is the type of s*** I see about me on a daily basis It’s really starting to make me hate the world.

"Then someone in the comments said I eat “lots of fast food” I LITERALLY STOPPED EATING FAST FOOD YEARS AGO…"

"I’m tired of explaining myself all the time and I just wanna get on this app w/out seeing my name in some bulls**t.

She went on to confess she "hated" Twitter and added: "This is what my body looks like when I'm eating clean and working out.

"Y’all really need to touch grass… I’m not trying to BE fat I’m not trying to BE smaller I’m literally just trying to live and be healthy.

"This is what my body looks like even when I’m eating super clean and working out! Yall speak on s**t y’all know NOTHING ABOUT and I’m starting to get heated. I HATE IT HERE."

She continued her passionate outburst: "The Love definitely do not outweigh the Hate on social media… all because I’m fat???? This is CRAZY.

Lizzo revealed she received too much hate online (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP)

"Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F*****G FARM…

"I literally NEVER search my name this stuff just comes up on my TL & my FYP it’s wild. I swear I just wanna look at dance videos and science news and this s**t comes in every day…"

Not being done just yet, she added: "ALSO: to the people who haven’t had an original thought or fresh air in years… BEING FAT ISNT MY ‘BRAND’ BEING FAT IS WHAT MY BODY LOOKS THAT. THATS IT. THATS ALL. My ‘brand’ is FEEL GOOD MUSIC My ‘brand’ is CHAMPIONING ALL PEOPLE My ‘brand’ is BLACK GIRL LIBERATION

"I’ve always led w my TALENT… But when I dropped Good As Hell feel good music was 'corny' When I dropped Juice disco pop wasn’t “for them” When I was body positive in 2016 being body positive was “pandering” Now everybody on that wave and I’m still s**t on?! man f*** y’all."

Despite a number of her followers leaper to her defence, the star has since locked her Twitter account and set it to private.

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