Demi Lovato Says Complimenting Weight Loss Is ‘Harmful’
Just a month after calling out a frozen yogurt company for promoting “disordered eating,” the singer is now speaking out on how complimenting someone on their weight loss can be just as harmful as complimenting somebody on their weight gain.
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In a post on Demi’s IG Story, the entertainer explained, “Idk who needs to hear this but complimenting someone on their weight loss can be as harmful as complimenting someone on their weight gain in regards to talking to someone in recovery from an eating disorder,”
Lovato, who recently said they were non-binary and use they/them pronouns, continued: “If you don’t know someone’s history with food, please don’t comment on their body. Because even if your intention is pure, it might leave that person awake at 2 am overthinking that statement.”
Demi added: “Does it feel great? Yeah, sometimes. But only to the loud-ass eating disorder voice inside my head that says ‘See, people like a thinner you’ or ‘if you eat less you’ll lose even more weight.’
“But it can also sometimes suck because then I start thinking ‘Well, damn. What’d they think of my body before?’ Moral of the story: I am more than the shell for my soul that is my body and every day I fight to remind myself of that, so I’m asking you to please not remind me that that is all people see of me sometimes.”
In Demi’s new Youtube Documentary, “Dancing With the Devil” the 28-year-old explained that at age 18, the star first sought professional treatment for eating disorders. Demi said that their bulimia intensified after being raped by someone they worked with during their Disney Channel days.
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