"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? 

 

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Sober Is Sexy is a Los Angeles based clothing line - but it’s not only that. Oh no. Founders Hanna Beth (@HannaBeth) Bori Mischief (@BoriMischief) and Hayley Moriston (@GoAskHayley) believe that Sober Is Sexy is not only a clothing line, but also a motto and a movement. The pressure for teens, American, English or anywhere else in the world , to engage in taking various substances is massive and it’s only growing.

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Timberline Knolls is a leading residential treatment centre in the US (near Chicago) which helps women struggling with eating disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, mood disorders, trauma and PTSD. Lovato entered the treatment centre only to be released a few incredibly tough months later with a life saving plan and the inspiration to get back on track – since then, she has also been a firm supporter of the Sober Is Sexy brand, being photographed sporting their goods around the US and most importantly drumming the motto that sobriety is attractive in young women into her fans across the globe.

When Twitter explodes with hashtags including; #SoberIsSexy  and #SoberIsTheNewBlack it gives me hope for our generation. We don’t have to be the way people label us. I know, just as anyone who doesn’t drink whilst at University, that it can be difficult in certain situations but I would rather stand up for myself and what I have come to believe in than ruin my night out because of social acceptability.

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