Demi Lovato refuses to be triggered by body shamers. This week, an Instagram user (whose account has since been deleted) tagged a photo of the singer leaving the gym that the user had captioned, “hey demi dm me so we can discuss a diet plan for you.” Demi, who’s spoken openly about her struggles with eating disorders, self harm and substance abuse, replied with a polite (and possibly facetious) “thank you,” as well as an explanation about why diets can be dangerous. “I actually am choosing not to diet and fall back into unhealthy behaviors at the risk of losing my sanity or mental health,” she wrote (via Us Weekly), “but thank you for the offer! Super sweet.” This month marks one year since the singer suffered a near fatal overdose. Since then, she’s undergone extended treatment for drug and alcohol addiction and cautiously returned to social media. Back in March, she used that platform to speak out about how tabloid stories and other public comments about her size affect her. “I am more than my weight,” she wrote on her Instagram Story at the time. “Unlike the past, I’m not triggered, I’m not upset that someone wrote a headline about my ‘fuller figure.’ I’m angry that people think it’s OK to write headlines about people’s body shapes.”
