Jameela Jamil defends Demi Lovato against body shamers: ‘She deserves so much more respect’
Demi Lovato is continuing to fight against her body shamers, and now she has body positive activist Jameela Jamil by her side.
The 26-year-old singer was forced to contend with a publication’s demeaning headline over the weekend, which took aim at her “fuller figure.” And although she sorted things out with the article’s author via Instagram that same day, Jamil is also demanding that people give Lovato “more respect.”
“Do not f*** with Demi Lovato,” Jamil wrote. “She is a queen, and if you think her body weight is of any relevance to what she has achieved, or what she has meant to her fans, then you aren’t worthy of even licking the s*** off her shoes!”
The 33-year-old British actress and activist behind the “I Weight” movement added, “Nothing on earth makes your weight relevant unless you are an MMA fighter/wrestler/suitcase,” in the caption of her post and called Lovato “a source of strength and light.”
This all comes days after Lovato took to her own Instagram stories to call out a headline which read “Demi Lovato Appears to Have a Full Figure After Working Up a Sweat In LA.” In a number of since-expired posts she wrote, “I am more than my weight,” and explained that although she’s no longer triggered by these words, she’s still angered by them.
“I’m not upset that someone wrote a headline about my ‘fuller figure.’ I’m angry that people think it’s okay to write headlines about people’s body shapes,” she wrote. “Especially a woman who has been so open about being in recovery from an eating disorder.”
Lovato has been open about her struggles with eating disorders, and the work that she’s done to overcome her body image issues. Back in January 2018, she took to Twitter to announce that she had “given up dieting” as a part of her recovery. Most recently, she was in rehab for 90 days following an apparent drug overdose in July.
Fans of Lovato took to Jamil’s post to share their own words of encouragement.
“If it wasn’t for [Lovato] publicly discussing her eating disorder, I might not have recognized those same patters and behaviors in my self,” one person wrote, while another said, “After all that she has been through she deserves the world.”
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