Lizzo Fan Explains How Her Dream of Wearing the Singer’s Dress Came True

tell us how it all happened okay so I'm an author I'm a writer I write poetry and essays I put in my first book um in 2002. congratulations sorry everyone I'm a little out of breath Clemson next to Jennifer Hudson so I published my first book and, ya You know, it was the most important part of my career. I was very excited. It was a bit of a difficult time for humanity. We were in the middle of a pandemic, so I didn't do it. get to shake hands kiss babies meet my readers and um I got this amazing email amazing announcement that it was part of our 100 magazine yeah congratulations yeah that's amazing and the first thing I thought was this is amazing.

I'll go, I'll be on the right rug, I'll have a good time and the second thing was like, oh, what do I wear? I had no idea so it was amazing and also. Like what's good, what can I do yeah, yeah, so you liked it, did you see her?, like oh, I could wear that outfit, like, what were you thinking? Okay, so you know, as someone plus size, I'm sure some of us can relate. I don't see fat as a bad word. I don't think plus size is a bad word. I think my body is hitting, yes it is but unfortunately the fashion industry doesn't always agree with us so it can be difficult on a day to day basis to find something amazing to wear let alone a rug red so I thought I needed something fabulous and amazing and nothing I was looking for worked and I started to feel like I mean.

Just imagine it's like the highlight of your career Yes, you like it, you know the girls are going to be stiff, Yes, you say I have to watch and you want to feel like that. I understand it and I got to a point where I thought, well, if I don't feel that way, I don't even want to taint the memory and the praise and the experience of being self-aware of being a I'm not a wallflower. I thought: Do I want to sit on a wall all night? I don't even know what I'm going to do and I was and my wife she turned to me and she said well you know how you don't want to feel how you want to feel and I and the first thing that

came

to mind and I thought, "I want to feel "How I imagine Lizzo felt when she walked up the steps to go get her first Emmy this year, you know what I mean, she looks so beautiful, she looks beautiful, oh I remember she looked amazing." and the

dress

was taking up space it was sexy it was voluptuous it was everything I wanted to feel and I said that's what I want and my wife says oh, that's a difficult task now for you yeah, no, I mean, I at that moment I thought Well, I'll ask her and I'll ask her for this

dress

and she probably won't even see this, but if she doesn't see it or she says no, I'll be in the exact same place I am now without a dress, so there was no backup plan, there was no backup plan it was liz or bust so you made the video and then what happened so i make this video with like 0.2 followers.

There was no reason for her to see it dot two dot two there was no reason for her to see it but I'm the kind of person I am like you know I love a Hail Mary plan I like to throw things against the wall and see what sticks I get I like to let the universe tell me no you know I like to say why not I'm like let me just let me why not me you know what we're gonna try so I posted this video and I was like you know I'm a stranger nice to meet you um I've written about you for the Vogue team.

I've written, you know, this is it. I have worked up to this point in my career as a plus-size daredevil. Bodacious girl, yeah, yeah, you're afraid I love it. Can I borrow your dress? um and out of nowhere talking to this magical little thing and she saw the video. Did she say how she saw it? Did you ever think she would see it? No, I mean, we know. how social media works like there are algorithms involved, yeah, ones and zeros, why would you find this little writer down south, you know, hanging in my little corner? Why would she find out that she's on tour? a Hail Mary plan like I said.

I just followed the bold moments that I went with, I leaned into the unknown and Liz Osai and one of her managers reached out to me on Instagram DMS and the first thing I thought was are you opening oh yeah oh my gosh and they're shipping them overseas , so as you can imagine, I was excited. Okay, how was your night? Oh, everyone, it was so beautiful. I wish all plus size women across the country and around the world could feel. As beautiful as I felt in Lizzo's dress, y'all, it was amazing, there were people I've admired my whole life, people I've written about people I have, that I have, that I just met. like I

dream

ed of shaking their hands, walking them towards me as a girl, you look good in that joke, there are many guests like when you were at the event, that's fine, you know, I didn't want to mention the name too much, yeah.

I did it, yeah, it was amazing and I took so many photos and I did so many Twirls and I could have twerked, you know, in the spirit of Lizzo, it was just, it was a wonderful night, it was the most amazing thing. I always love that yeah okay and yeah and I heard you got married in October congratulations thank you yeah I got married my wife and I have been together almost eight years that's beautiful Amazon we got married in Savannah , Georgia, which is where his family is. It's oh yeah guys, that's so beautiful, did you all go on your honeymoon?

No? I've been very busy with the book tour. I toured this over the summer and my amazing wife is an OBGYN who takes care of black and brown people in the south, which I'm sure, yeah, we've been a little busy, so we said, you know, we're not going to push it You know, we have this amazing wedding that we loved from all of our people that I haven't seen in the last three years, so we'll take a trip when the trip comes. Well, oh no, I think you deserve one, so I'm going to sing them both on a trip, no, yes, I'll bring them.

Choose a five-night stay for the two of you and a location in Cancun where you'll stay in an ocean-view suite and dine on gourmet cuisine while you relax. Get your costume, girl, how's your time. Thank you so much Arielle, that's amazing. Congratulations to you, thanks to you and your wife, we will be back, don't forget to subscribe to the Jennifer Hudson Show YouTube channel and activate the notification bell so you can be the first to see our latest videos abroad.