Demi Lovato Promotes Body Confidence With Skin-Baring Bikini Photos
Demi Lovato is taking to Snapchat to promote body confidence.
According to Refinery29, Demi took to the media sharing app on April 22 to bare all for a bikini snap where she told her millions of fans that she loved her imperfections.
A screenshot of Demi’s Snapchat photo saw Lovato slightly pinching her stomach while sporting a turquoise bikini alongside the text, “My body isn’t perfect, I’m not my fittest but this is me!! And I [heart] it!” with a heart and thumbs up emoji.
Perez Hilton also posted screen shots of Demi’s body confidence Snapchat photos, which appeared to be taken during a trip to the beach, where Lovato also posted photo of her lower body which she confidently captioned “curves.”
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In another photo shared by Perez Hilton, Lovato also showed off her toned stomach to her Snapchat followers and admitted, “I love the ocean,” spelled out for her fans in emojis.
Demi Lovato’s inspiring Snapchat posts had her Twitter fans flocking to the social media site to praise Lovato for being so confident in showing off her body, with a number praising Lovato for proudly showing off her curves on the app.
“Demi in a bikini gives me so much life. how dare her @ddlovato” Demi fan @HanselHazel tweeted out on April 22 alongside screenshots of Lovato’s revealing Snapchat photos, while @ddlwaitinforya wrote on Twitter, “I’m happy that Demi is proud of her body.”
Other Demi fans noted how far the “Give Your Heart A Break” singer has come since publicly revealing that she struggled with body and self-confidence issues while seeking treatment for bulimia and other issues in 2011.
“Demi went from hating every inch of her body to genuinely loving who she is. it was such a beautiful transformation,” @ilovatoswift tweeted, while @Flawless_Demi noted on the 140-character site, “She went from not being comfortable and not feeling confident in a bikini to embracing it and loving herself.”
Demi Lovato has publicly spoken out about her past struggles with body image issues, revealing during an appearance on The Katie Couric Show in 2012 that part of her decision to seek help came after she was cyberbullied by online trolls who would harass her over her appearance.
“People don’t realize how badly verbal harassment and that cyber bullying affects you… They called me ‘fat’ and they called me horrible things,” Lovato said in 2012. “What they said to me sticks to me to this day.”
Demi also got seriously candid about her battle with bulimia in the interview, where she admitted that being over-critical about what she was putting into her body was a “control thing” for her.
“Some people just don’t want to feel the emotions that they have. I think a lot of it is just me numbing myself out so I didn’t have to deal with certain problems or trauma,” Lovato said at the time, admitting that she “would throw up because I thought one glass of juice [would] make me gain five pounds. There was a week where I think I ate two meals.”
Lovato revealed in the interview that being in the spotlight only magnified her body issues and admitted that the cruel comments people posted online made her hate her body.
“I think it definitely amplified things because your life is under a microscope. I was listening to commenters on blog sites who were saying, ‘Oh she looks fat in this outfit’, or whatever and I put that pressure on myself,” Demi said.
“I was going through puberty, I was changing and I didn’t like the fact that I was gaining weight or curves that I didn’t understand,” Lovato continued on The Katie Couric Show. “It’s difficult for girls with eating disorders around that time because your body is changing into a woman basically.”
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