Jazmine Sullivan Shows Off Slimmer Physique, Claps Back at Online Trolls
The Grammy winner made an appearance at Ari Lennox’s ‘Vacancy Tour’ show in Philadelphia.
Screenshot from @jazminesullivan on Instagram.
Jazmine Sullivan is showing off her trim physique. The two-time Grammy winner made a guest appearance during Ari Lennox's sold-out Vacancy Tour stop in Philadelphia, where she hit the stage looking svelte in a black latex catsuit by Vex Clothing. The surprise appearance got social media buzzing about Sullivan’s new look.
“Pulled up on my shea butter baby @arilennox at her sold out Vacancy Tour in Philly!” Sullivan wrote on an Instagram post. “You’re killing it baby😍here’s your 💐💐👑 S/o my glam for getting me together!”
Sullivan has always had to deal with comments that scrutinized her weight loss. Back in 2020, Sullivan was open about her fitness journey and she herself addressed online comments calling her “sickly” and “skinny.”
“I’m a size 12. 180 pounds. There’s nothing skinny about me but my neck,” she said. She went on to explain how she’d changed her lifestyle. Her mother – who sadly passed in 2023 – was her inspiration.
“My goal was to support my mother [through] her battle [with] cancer by going vegan with her, and in turn it helped me as well. And I feel really good,” she wrote.
She told ESSENCE in 2021 that the experience was life-changing.
“My mom’s diagnosis made me look at my health in a different way,” she said at the time. “Obviously, I wasn’t going through it myself, but when breast cancer happens to somebody in a family, it really kind of happens to everybody. So I was like, what do we have to do as a family to get through this? We made a personal decision to become vegans and change our lifestyle, just become more active. It was actually an easier transition than I thought it would be because I was a meat-eater, baby. I was eating pork and bacon and everything else, but I had a different motivation. When I had that motivation, all the things that I loved weren’t as important as keeping my mom here on this earth. I gave it up way easier than I thought. I love meat, but I don’t miss it. If I’m around it, obviously, the smells and stuff like that, but it’s not something that I yearn for [like] when I was eating meat. If you’re eating it, you kind of want to keep eating it. But it’s been good. It’s been really good for us.”
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