Lizzo is entering 2020 on a massive high, with eight Grammy nominations and a music career that is now blossoming into superstardom. Time magazine clearly agrees and decided to name Lizzo Entertainer of the Year on Wednesday. 

In a lengthy profile written by best-selling author and comedian Samantha Irby, Lizzo explained that her long road to fame was built on hard work and an earnest desire to love her body, even as others continue to shame her for it. 

“I’ve been doing positive music for a long ass time. Then the culture changed. There were a lot of things that weren’t popular but existed, like body positivity, which at first was a form of protest for fat bodies and Black women and has now become a trendy, commercialized thing," she told Irby.

"Now I’ve seen it reach the mainstream. Suddenly I’m mainstream! How could we have guessed something like this would happen when we’ve never seen anything like this before?” she continued.

Just this week, thousands of people on Twitter and Instagram spent hours bashing her outfit at a Lakers game. The outfit for her was an outward expression of her body positivity —  something she has continued to struggle with.

"I was not happy with the way I felt to my body. I didn’t feel sexy, and I didn’t know when it was going to end. There were times when I would go on stage and be like, ‘Y’all, I’m not going to lie. I’m not feeling myself.’ Sometimes I’d break down and cry. Sometimes the audience would just cheer to make me feel better. I was getting sick a lot. I was like, 'What the f**k is going on? I need to fall back in love with my body.'”

In the interview, she said she often has to hold her tongue with critics who question her Blackness or her talent. Since March, she also said she's been “experiencing a little bit of unhappiness."

The artist added that she never wanted to be famous and only wanted "to be like Brandon Boyd from Incubus! I just want to go to the farmers’ market.”

In a corresponding video from Time, the 31-year-old "Truth Hurts" singer said, "being a Black woman is popping, but right now in mainstream culture we’re finally getting a little bit more respect and getting our due.”

“I’ve always been singing about the same shit. I just think that people were ready to hear it and they’re also ready to receive it from someone like me,” she told Irby.