11:31 pm - 09/24/2012
Highlights
-talks about her schooling
-started binge eating at 8
-believes she was born with it and hints that someone in her family also has a eating disorder
-binging and purging was a control thing for her talk about physical high from it
-would throw up 6 times a day at worst
-talks about altercation she got into
-talks about treatment
-gained 30 pounds in rehab still trying to deal with it in her own ways
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Demi Lovato on Katie Couric
Highlights
-talks about her schooling
-started binge eating at 8
-believes she was born with it and hints that someone in her family also has a eating disorder
-binging and purging was a control thing for her talk about physical high from it
-would throw up 6 times a day at worst
-talks about altercation she got into
-talks about treatment
-gained 30 pounds in rehab still trying to deal with it in her own ways
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hate her hair tho
To be honest, I don't know how she can stand being referred to as "the troubled star who spent time in a treatment center for eating disorders and self-harm" literally every single time she's mentioned; no matter what the original intentions were, it's gross and exploitative at this point.
and obv this is just speculation, but if she is still hanging around hanna beth/the drug-using scene crowd, I find it difficult to believe she's not using either. maybe she's strong-willed, buuut given hanna beth's hypocrisy with the whole 'sober is sexy' thing while simultaneously doing drugs, I wouldn't be surprised if demi was also, which just makes this whole 'reinventing her image' thing extremely obnoxious
and idek about hanna, she was with her like nearly all the time last year and you could def tell she was relapsing, thus being in rehab at the end of last year/start of this year apparently but then she seemed to be in a better place and happy (she still does imo) and she was focusing on her work and having nothing to do w/ these ppl but then recently shes started being seen with wilmer...and hanna and its so annoying lol
idk it's a nice thing she's doing, but it's also really easy to be critical of her...
Edited at 2012-09-25 09:33 am (UTC)
What also bothers me is that she has completely stopped talking about her drug and alcohol use, which certainly contributed to her issues.
it's why I feel for her but also feel frustrated with her...if that makes sense.
If she were merely raising awareness to help other girls, she wouldn't be focusing so much on her issues. She would be focusing on the getting help part of it and how much it helped her. Literally 8 seconds was dedicated to telling girls to get help. Smh
To me she seems like she is milking this whole thing dryyyyyyy and its not sitting well with me AT ALL.
Edited at 2012-09-25 03:26 pm (UTC)
lol stop, you're just trying to find reasons to hate on her....
As for Demi, IN THIS INSTANCE maybe she wasn't there to tell people what to do with their eating disorder but she's been peddling the saaaame story for over a year now with no real resolution. She keeps talking about her issues, eating disorder, time in rehab. She barely talks about how much rehab helped her (if it did at all). She doesn't talk about finding inspiration or the things that keep her away from self-harm. ALL I hear about is her issues. That's the main takeaway from all her stories when it should be about how she's in a positive place now and still working on herself.
(I also find it interesting that she stopped talking about cutting when that was one of the main things she went to rehab for but w/e)
She makes it seem like it was just a phase. LOL. When do I get a turn to have it as a phase? I'm more eating disorder than me as a person, as my boyfriend reminds me daily. And it's true, I'm an insane, Gollumesque shadow of the former 'person' I once was.
Just hate her so much.
she literally said she still struggled with her body image after rehab. she said for 2 years, and only recently has she found a way to stay in a good place.
she then went on to say it would be a lifetime struggle...