DEMI LOVATO began cutting herself intentionally since she was 11! In a shocking interview, Lovato opened up about her lifelong struggle with bulimia and the effects it has on her. Lovato reveals she started self-mutilating her wrists since she was 11!
“I’ve spoken openly about being bullied throughout the past few years, but one thing that I’ve never been able to feel comfortable talking about was the effects that it had on my life, afterwards,” Lovato opened up to Robin Roberts on 20/20. “I literally didn’t know why they were being so mean to me. And when I would ask them why, they would just say, ‘Well, you’re fat.”
The bullying turned her into developing very dangerous habits..
“I developed an eating disorder, and that’s kind of what I’ve been dealing with ever since,” she said. ”I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old,” she said. “So, I guess, for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.”
Even though her family helped her to cope with the food problems by seeking professional help but her self-mutilating habit was something she hid away from everyone.
“It was a way of expressing my own shame, of myself, on my own body,” she told Roberts. “I was matching the inside to the outside. And there were some times where my emotions were just so built up, I didn’t know what to do. The only way that I could get instant gratification was through an immediate release on myself.”
This is so sad.
Demi has chosen to open up because she wants all the young girls to see that it doesn’t have to be this way. And no it doesn’t.
Demi you are so brave. We just reported that Lovato is leaving her Disney show “Sonny without A Chance;” Get well soon Demi!
A little more about Demi, she was born was born in Dallas, Texas on August 20, 1992. Demi is of Mexican, Irish, and Italian descent.
Her birth name: Demetria Devonne Lovato.
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