Lainey Wilson To Anyone Who Shamed Her For Losing Weight: “Kiss My Fat A**”

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Lainey Wilson has a message to anyone who is shamed for losing weight.

“Kiss my fat a**.”

She says that right after British journalist and podcast host Josh Smith asked her what she would say to anyone shaming her for losing weight. While Wilson jokes right after that line that she’s “playing,” I am sure there is some truth behind Wilson’s statement.

A while back, Lainey Wilson’s derriere went viral across social media as fans realized she was caked up back there. While it’s weird to see your behind go viral on social media, Wilson had some fun playing with the meme, even making one of her own. She riffed off her song title, “Heart Like A Truck,” turning it into “Dump Like a Truck.”

However, once Wilson began to shed a few pounds, she quickly found herself being asked many personal questions about her weight loss and even had to clear up some rumors about fake ads that were pushing weight loss gummies, claiming that’s how she dropped the pounds. All in all, Wilson said she lost roughly twenty pounds from working out and exerting so much energy during her shows.

I mean, have you seen that girl on stage? If I moved like that every night, I’d drop a few pounds too.

But after going viral for having a large behind, she found herself oddly getting shamed for losing weight. One fan even went as far to ask her about her “turd cutter,” to which Wilson hilariously replied:

“Uncle Timmy, why you worried about my turd cutter? Worry about your own. Cut your own turds.”

While it seems like Wilson’s been able to take it all on the chin and make light of the criticism, during her sit-down with Josh Smith for his podcast, Reign with Josh Smith, Wilson vulnerably opens up about the experience.

“At first, I kind of thought it was funny because I was like, I’ve been working on music my whole life, and all of a sudden, I’m gaining a lot of fans because of my rear end. It was a weird thing. I thought it was going to be a quick little viral moment, and then something to laugh about, you know, whatever. 

Then it kept going on and on, and then on and was still going on like months later. Like, it really went viral. I read way too many comments; I read way too many things people had to say about me. At the end of the day, I’m a storyteller, I think words are powerful, that’s why I wanted to write music, because I think words are powerful.

And if you don’t believe it, what somebody says about you, even putting your eyes on that for a split second, can leave a little mark, you know?”

Wilson noticed then that she needed to be more mindful about what she saw online and made a conscious decision to stop reading the comments. After that, she made efforts to find her self-worth through other mediums.

She then brings up a great point that so many women experience: our weight fluctuates. Wilson jokes that if she ate a burger, she might gain a few pounds, but fans notice it more than the average woman would because she’s constantly getting photographed and filmed. Because of this, she’s turned off her brain to that side of comments, knowing that people will always have something to say.

“People have something to say about everything. It’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

And then I kind of trimmed up because I had played 186 shows one year, and then people had a lot to say about that. They thought I was on some stuff, and it was just the weirdest thing. Like, this has nothing to do with my music. I’m not telling you you’ve got to like my music, I’m not saying that you have to like me, but it’s a weird thing to talk about the way that somebody looks. 

My parents did not raise me that way. They taught me to look at somebody’s heart and from within. I think some people didn’t get their butt whooped as a child and it shows.” 

Wilson says that she thinks all the people who have shamed her are the definition of “hurt people. ” Even though the comments still hurt, she tries to show them grace, knowing they are trying to pick on someone else to make themselves feel better.

Even when Wilson could have let it rip and gone off on all the fans who left rude comments about her body, she still faced it gracefully. Talk about a class act.