14 DAY TRIAL // If there's one person who knows about the pressure of being in the spotlight and looking a certain way, she is Demi Lovato. The singer has forced Disney to pull an episode of one of their shows for including an anorexia joke.
On the latest episode of “Shake It Up,” one of the female characters makes a not too veiled reference to / joke about anorexia, saying, “I could just eat you up. Well, if I ate.”
Demi saw the episode in question and, not thinking twice about it, took to her Twitter page to put Disney on blast for the wrong message it's sending to all impressionable girls out there.
“What are we promoting here? #notfunnyATALL,” Demi first asks.
She then goes on to point out that Disney should probably be the last to make a joke of this kind.
“I find it really funny how a company can lose one of their actress' from the pressures of an EATING DISORDER and yet still make joke about.... that very disease.....,” she writes.
Things are getting worse in television in general, so Disney making anorexia jokes isn't going to make them better anytime soon.
“And is it just me or are the actress' getting THINNER AND THINNER.... I miss the days of RAVEN, and LIZZIE MCGUIRE. Dear Disney Channel, EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT SOMETHING TO JOKE ABOUT,” Demi continues.
It didn't take long for the people at Disney to hear about Demi's complaints. In a move meant to show they didn't really think the joke through, they issued an apology and announced the episode in question would be pulled for “reevaluation.”
A happy Demi continued to explain on Twitter that girls shouldn't be told they need to look a certain way to be accepted by society and, more importantly, to accept themselves.
“Just clearing things up, I have nothing against any specific actress/actor or tv show.. Nor do I think there's anything wrong with girls who aren't curvy,” she wrote.
“I just was stating a fact that there needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful. :)” Demi added.