"Chubby"

It makes me absolutely crazy that people on the internet have the nerve to call a Demi Lovato fat. Chubby is such an ugly word, why do people think that they can throw it around and not affect anyone?

Tell me you don't like her music, fine - that's your opinion. 

Tell me you think she's fat, and that's none of your business. 

If Demi Lovato is fat, then dear God please let me wake up fat tomorrow. 

Lovato has graced the covers of an insane number of magazines, including; Teen Vogue, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Latina, Cosmo On Campus, Nylon, Dolly, Sugar, Cosmo Girl, Atrevida, Self, Elle Girl and many more. More than once often enough. 

If anyone, male or female, can look at these photos and tell me they do not think she looks happy and healthy then they are lying. 

Struggling through rehab for an eating disorder and coming out shining, Demi has earned the respect of thousands. She definitely has not earned the online fat shaming that is being thrown her way. People who use the words "chubby" or "fat" don't know what it can do to a person, especially a person with known insecurities on the subject.  I can only be assumed that the bullies, because that's what they are, using this cheap way to insult someone because they are overcompensating - attempting to hide something about themselves. 

Having won 64 awards across the board, including an MTV Music Video award, two Do Something awards, three ALMA awards, five People's Choice awards and eleven Teen Choice Awards, there is no way anyone can contest Lovato's professional prowess and accomplishment. 

Why try and bring someone down when they clearly are doing so well, post-recovery? 

If I could count the number of ways I'm jealous of not only Lovato's success but her looks, and talent I would run out of fingers a thousand times over. 

Maybe she's not everyone's ideal singer/actress/philanthropist but that's no reason to call them something, that you don't how they'll react to. It's never a joke, and it doesn't matter if you "didn't really mean it" - don't say it. Don't put it online. 

I for one, know that Lovato is stronger that I could ever be. She has more will power than I could ever possess and is better looking than I feel I will ever be. She gives so many people hope, so what gives you the right to take hers away?