Demi Lovato Slams Body-Shaming Headline: 'I Am More than My Weight'

Demi Lovatois worth far more than a number on the scale. The 26-year-old singer fought back on her Instagram story after spotting a headline that said she now has a “fuller figure.” Lovato,who is in recovery from an eating disorder, shared a screenshot of the articleon her Instagram storyand added, “I AM MORE THAN MY WEIGHT.” “Too many people today base their ideal body weight off of what OTHERS tell us we should look like or weigh.

Demi Lovato Started to Believe the 'Myth of Moderation' Before Apparent Overdose: Source

Demi Lovato’s apparentopioid overdoseand subsequent hospitalization on Tuesday has left longtime friends“shocked”and“reeling,”but some close to the 25-year-old singer have noticed that all has not been well with her.Sources tell PEOPLE that Lovato has been“a total mess for months,”and some point to her new perspective on sobriety and a subsequentsplit with Mike Bayer, her longtime life coach, as a major red flag.“Demi began to feel that the belief that total abstinence is the only way to deal with addiction is false,” a source with insider knowledge of the situation tells PEOPLE.

Demi Lovato Started Using She/Her Pronouns Again Because Explaining They/Them Was 'Absolutely Exhausting'

Gender identities can evolve for numerous reasons, andDemi Lovatois sharing hers.The “Cool for the Summer” singer-songwriter opened up toGQ Hype Spainabout why she decided tore-adopt she/her pronouns in addition to they/them pronounslast year after announcing her nonbinary identity in 2021.“I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns. It was absolutely exhausting,” said Lovato, 30, in the interview, translated from Spanish to English. “I just got tired.

Demi Lovato Still Gets Body Shamed After Giving Up Dieting but Says 'I Feel Great'

“I had been on a really strict, regimented diet for so many years, and it felt like I didn’t have a lot of freedom with food,” Lovato tells PEOPLE ahead of hernew campaign launch with CORE Hydration. “It would cause me to overindulge whenever I did get the opportunity, and I just felt like it was an unhealthy behavior. I just thought to myself, why am I doing this? I’d rather live in freedom from any eating disordered behaviors or thoughts, and so I decided to just let myself enjoy certain things without feeling guilt or shame.

Demi Lovato Supports Ukraine Refugees with 'Choose Love' Tattoo

Photo: ddlovato/Instagram; Rich Fury/Getty Demi Lovatois showing support forUkrainewith a new tattoo. The singer, 29, debuted their new arm ink, which reads “choose love” on Instagram. The tattoo artist shared Lovato’s tattoo on Instagram, thanking them “so much for all you are doing, really appreciate it” Choose Love foundation also saluted Lovato, noting in anInstagrampost of the tattoo that the “Confident” singer is helping raise money for Ukraine. The foundation noted that “all funds will be donated to our Ukraine Crisis Relief fundraiser,” adding there’s up to $50,000 match in funding.