“I would tell her, ‘You know what girl? I’m going to let you finish because everything you’re doing right now is going to create the person I am today,’” she said. “‘I don’t want you to change who you are, because I think the struggle is what makes me special.’”

It’s a feeling she hopes comes through in her music, which is as much about building yourself up as it is about accepting where you are.

“I had to really look myself in the mirror and say, this is it,” she said. “This is the person I am going to be for the rest of my life and it is not going to change,” Lizzo said. “I think when you face yourself it is really hard, because you’re immediately facing the things you don’t like.”

As she dressed for the show backstage, she considered wearing pants but decided to go for a bodysuit instead — bright, regal, tulle on the shoulders. She looked queenly from every angle.

Lizzo’s makeup artist drew a pink line in the beds of her eyelids while her hairdresser stacked scrunchies at the base of her pony and teased its tail. She showed off the Gucci boots she bought on Rodeo Drive.

“Self-care,” she said.