{"id":288366,"date":"2020-02-18T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123907"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:57:06","slug":"why-demi-lovato-is-the-most-free-shes-ever-felt-in-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-demi-lovato-is-the-most-free-shes-ever-felt-in-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Demi Lovato Is the &#8220;Most Free&#8221; She&#8217;s Ever Felt In Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.536772777168\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202012\/rs_634x1024-200202164628-634x1024-demi-gj-2-2-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Demi Lovato, 2020 Super Bowl\" alt=\"Demi Lovato, 2020 Super Bowl\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.092342342342\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/demi_lovato\">Demi Lovato<\/a><\/strong> is not willing to &#8220;destroy&#8221; her mental health to look a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Anyone&#8221; singer is opening up about her journey in the spotlight, and how she&#8217;s putting her health first. In a deeply personal new interview with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ashley_graham\">Ashley Graham<\/a><\/strong> for the model&#8217;s <em>Pretty Big Deal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pretty-big-deal-with-ashley-graham\/id1437469957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a>, released on Tuesday, Lovato explained how she&#8217;s focusing on loving and accepting her body, instead of trying to spend her days in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a bunch of people that I work with in the recovery aspect of my life, one of them is a dietician, one of them is a therapist,&#8221; Lovato told Graham, adding that her dietician suggested that she needed to focus on body acceptance over body positivity. &#8220;Now when I look in the mirror and I start to have a negative thought, I don&#8217;t stop and say, &#8216;No, you&#8217;re beautiful, you&#8217;re gorgeous, I love you, you&#8217;re perfect the way you are.&#8217; Because I don&#8217;t believe that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>Instead, Lovato now tells herself, &#8220;You&#8217;re healthy and I accept you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you express gratitude in the health and then you just express reality in accepting yourself rather than trying to convince yourself of something that you don&#8217;t believe,&#8221; the 27-year-old star explained. &#8220;I would love to be in a place where I can say I&#8217;m super confident in my body, but the reality is, I&#8217;m not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t worn a pair of jeans in forever because I don&#8217;t like jeans, they don&#8217;t make me feel great right now,&#8221; Lovato continued. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t have to f&#8211;king wear jeans if I don&#8217;t want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t worn jeans in six months,&#8221; Graham told Lovato.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither have I!&#8221; Lovato replied as they laughed together. &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"html-external-4\" data-type=\"async\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"36.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-html-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>Lovato also told Graham that she doesn&#8217;t know what she currently weighs, but normally she could tell her weight without even needing a scale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, I finally feel like I have freedom from it because I literally don&#8217;t know my weight,&#8221; Lovato said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s the most free that I&#8217;ve ever felt in my whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Lovato talk more about her health, recovery and her journey in the spotlight in the podcast interview above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! 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In a deeply personal new interview with Ashley Graham for the model&#8217;s Pretty Big Deal podcast, released on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 20:39:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}