Disney star, Demi Lovato recently opened up about her eating disorders and cutting issues to the news. Demi has been in many movies, magazines, and television shows that being in the public eye is constant. Also with going on tour all the time the pressure to be perfect is always creeping up on her. When she first came out with her issues to the public, I thought that it was so brave or her to do and go to treatment. Having that personal of an issue be public is probably one of the hardest thing a celebrity can do. In a recent interview with ABC News, Demi opens up about the issues she has faced since she was 8 years old. She was constantly being bullied and it finally came to a point where hurting herself was the only escape. " I developed an eating disorder and that's kind of what I've been dealing with ever since," Lovato said. Then at just 11 years old, Lovato began to cut herself. "It was a way of expressing my own shame, of myself, on my own body," she told Robin Roberts of ABC News. After going through the pain of cutting and her eating issues, Demi also began to feel depressed and not eat with performing her concerts. Finally, Demi checked into treatment and has become a complete different person ever since. "For the first time I started to feel," said Lovato. I think that what she experienced is what many girls go through whether celebrities or not. They tend to hid the fact that they are hurting themselves and never have the courage to speak up. With Demi speaking up, many girls have began to open up about their eating disorders or their cutting problems and expressing them to Demi on her Twitter and the world. I think she has done a very courageous thing and she is an inspiration for all teenage girls going through the pain of being perfect. Lovato also has recently teamed up with Seventeen magazine to spread the word that "love is louder than the pressure to be perfect" which is a campaign to stop the pressure of being perfect and be the person you are and not look to eating disorders or cutting. Overall, Demi Lovato is a role model to girls everywhere and she is doing a great job at being herself.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/demi-lovato-interview-teen-star-opens-bulimia-cutting/story?id=13405090&page=1
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