She?s undergone a very public personal struggle as of late, and Demi Lovato finally shared her story with ABC News.
The ?Camp Rock? cutie began, "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. 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."
Demi continued, "I developed an eating disorder, and that's kind of what I've been dealing with ever since. I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. So, I guess, for the past 10 years I've had a really unhealthy relationship with food."
She also sought refuge in self-mutilation or cutting. "It was a way of expressing my own shame, of myself, on my own body. 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."
Last summer, things came to a head. "I was performing concerts on an empty stomach. I was losing my voice from purging. I was self-medicating. I was not taking medication for depression, and I literally was so emotionally whacked out that I took it out on someone that meant a lot to me."
Ms. Lovato says she hopes her openness will help her fans who have similar issues. "The real reason why I'm sitting down with you is to open up the eyes of so many young girls, that it doesn't have to be this way."
Demi also noted that she?s ditching her Disney gig ?Sonny with a Chance? in favor of fully pursuing her music career.
Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/demi-lovato/demi-lovato-opens-about-personal-struggles-498773
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