Demi Lovato and Penn Badgley got deep on the latest episode of Podcrushed , with the 32-year-old singer/actress opening up about her ongoing eating disorder treatments, gender presentation and more in an interview posted Thursday (Oct. 3). Sitting across from the You actor, Lovato gave an update on how they’re currently managing their body image and mental health — all things the Camp Rock star has previously been open about .
“I have a treatment team that I work with that helps me stay in recovery, and I’ve been in recovery from bulimia for five, going on six, years now,” she said. “I’m trying to learn body acceptance rather than body positivity, because body positivity feels like, ‘I can’t even reach that yet.’ I have a nutritionist and a therapist that specializes in eating disorders.
” Adding that cooking meals at home feels like “the biggest ‘F— you'” to her eating disorder, Lovato continued that “the main thing that I’m working on is just body acceptance, and looking in the mirror and being like, ‘This body is strong ...
This body saved my life and fought for my life when I overdosed. This body is a miracle.'” The interview comes a few weeks after the Sept.
17 premiere of Lovato’s Child Star Hulu documentary, on which the vocalist further explored their past struggles and interviewed fellow celebrities — Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore and Jojo Siwa, to name a few — about their own experiences with child fame. Lovato also recen.