{"id":245756,"date":"2026-06-12T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/lizzo-ive-had-anxiety-shadow-me-my-whole-life\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:00:13","slug":"lizzo-ive-had-anxiety-shadow-me-my-whole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/lizzo-ive-had-anxiety-shadow-me-my-whole-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo: I&#8217;ve had anxiety shadow me my whole life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-06-12\" datetime=\"1781226013\" pubdate=\"\">12 June 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Lizzo thought she was &#8220;very annoying&#8221; as a child.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lizzo used to be insecure<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old music star has recalled feeling insecure and having a negative perception of herself during her younger years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Lizzo explained: &#8220;I grew up feeling very annoying. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a huge insecurity of mine. I&#8217;m the baby in the family, and I played probably the most annoying instrument to be bad at. Hearing someone be bad at the flute is a nightmare. And I was bad for at least two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo is now convinced that she&#8217;s managed to overcome her deep-rooted, long-held anxieties.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe chart-topping star said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had that anxiety shadow me my whole life, and I think I&#8217;m healing something in myself \u2014 in my inner child \u2014 that I didn&#8217;t even realise I&#8217;m healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLizzo explained that, over time, she&#8217;s developed ways of coping with criticism in a healthy way.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pop star shared: &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard everything I could possibly hear about me, so nothing can bother me now.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen myself mashed up with Kamala Harris. I&#8217;ve seen me as a mannequin dummy. I&#8217;ve seen Chili&#8217;s baby back ribs slathered across my face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Lizzo previously explained that music has helped her to navigate depression.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe singer admitted that making music helped her to overcome some of the darkest and most depressing moments in her life.<\/p>\n<p>\nAsked about her experience of dealing with depression, Lizzo told Rolling Stone: &#8220;My relationship with music was still very intense.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I still am like, &#8216;Music saved my life,&#8217; because there were really dark moments when I was working on Love in Real Life, my album, where I was like, &#8216;Okay, I don\u2019t think I can make it through the day, but I have to go to the studio.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLizzo used to agonise over her lyrics because she feared offending fans. But the singer is now much more comfortable with who she is and how she thinks.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: &#8220;I always overthink these things because I know who\u2019s consuming my music and I\u2019m very [concerned about] how they\u2019re going to feel, how it\u2019s going to affect them.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But it\u2019s like \u2014 to keep it very, very funky with you \u2014 everybody\u2019s offended by everything today, so it\u2019s impossible to not offend somebody. So it\u2019s like, just say what you want to say. Just say whatever you want to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/lizzo-anxiety-shadow-whole-life-1445847.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 June 2026 Lizzo thought she was &#8220;very annoying&#8221; as a child. Lizzo used to be insecure The 38-year-old music star has recalled feeling insecure and having a negative perception of herself during her younger years. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Lizzo explained: &#8220;I grew up feeling very annoying. &#8220;It was a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179],"class_list":{"0":"post-245756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-lizzo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}