Demi Lovato Calls Out Taylor Swift Again for Not Empowering Women

Demi Lovato Calls Out Taylor Swift Again for Not Empowering Women

Demi Lovato looks so stunning for Glamour magazine’s November 2016 issue, on newsstands November 11.

The 24-year-old entertainer opened up about her past comments about Taylor Swift, her ex Wilmer Valderrama, and more. Here’s what she shared…

On criticizing Taylor in the past for not “doing the work” to be a feminist: “Just speaking out. I’m not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work. And I think every woman does her part in some way. But I think in certain situations, certain people could be doing more if they’re going to claim that as part of their brand. To be honest, and this will probably get me in trouble, I don’t see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It’s kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it’s not real�. It’s not realistic. And I think that having a song and a video about tearing Katy Perry down, that’s not women’s empowerment. We all do things that aren’t, but I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.”

On her split from Wilmer: “I think it’s healthy to be able to start over with someone else. Being sick was always a part of my relationship with him; I always had something wrong with me. I needed to let go of that. It was hard to depart from somebody who saw everything, but it may be nice to start fresh with somebody. Because that person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.”

On how her Disney roots still affect her and Nick Jonas: “PTSD. [Laughs.] We used to work so much and so hard for very little that when our schedules get too busy, I immediately think about the past. It gives me anxiety, and it’s kinda like legit PTSD.� You work so hard, and you don’t really reap the rewards, or I didn’t. But I was on such a platform that gave me the rest of my career�I couldn’t complain. [So now] whenever our schedules start to get busy, I start getting triggered because the things I used to do to cope were unhealthy. When I have a long day, I think, if [I went back to those things], I’d be able to get through it. But we now work with our manager, and we have amazing schedules.”

For more from Demi, visit Glamour.com.

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