[INTERVIEW] Demi Lovato: Why I Love My Family Over The Holidays

The ever-thankful singer admits she’s in a totally different place than she was last year — we’re so proud of her!

Demi Lovato is healthier than ever, and she’s using Thanksgiving as a time to reflect on how her life has changed for the better over the past year!

Demi, 19, took to her column in Seventeen to write about what she’s most thankful for this holiday season.

“As many of you know, last year at this time, I was in treatment. I spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve away from my home and family which is why I am so excited to be with them this year,” she writes. “Thinking about how far I have come in a year makes me so thankful.”

We love how much Demi has prioritized her life — she’s such a good role model! Are YOU so proud of Demi, HollywoodLifers?

– William Earl

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OMG I love demi soooo sooooo much shes awesome and my HERO really she is I can totaly relate to her and what shes been thourgh cuz i been thourgh it myself with anxity,deprssion and being bipolar shes what gets me thourgh the day and whatever life throws at me. STAY STRONG demi and allto other girls who are going thourgh somthing like this and also the all her fans STAY STRONG <3

"You go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper"

I LOVE YOU DEMI STAY STRONG
WE LOVE LOVE YOU GIRL :* <3

Love Demi's fan Virgilyn
P.S STAY STRONG ya'll :D

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She’s inspired me in so many ways. I can’t even begin to tell you what a great role model she has been for me. I too went through Bulimia and Anorexia and she speaks so strongly on self respect now and how feeling good about yourself helps you strive to achieve what you want most in this world. Being healthy is what matters most. She also is one of my biggest musical inspirations, I listen to her most of all out of anything else on my iPod. I even practice singing more so I could even be a fraction as good as her.
She may think she doesn’t deserve her success but she has earned every ounce of it and is a true role model and if I had my own kids I would be proud to have them look up to someone like her.
Demi has helped me through good and bad and some of the most critical years of my life, like high school.
You can’t beat that.
I have nothing but love for her.

I know exactly how she feels – I’m 17, and have been ill for over four years now with major anxiety & depression , and schizophrenia psychosis, and I’ve nearly lost the battle, nearly losing my life countless times, and I even had to spend last Christmas completely alone from everyone. I am finally starting to get better again, and it feels like the first time I have ever been happy it’s been that long! I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I’m feeling for this Christmas……I know how hard it is to keep going strong. Good luck!

Two years ago my duaghter talked me into taking her to see Ms. Lovato in concert here in North Carolina. I didn’t even know who she was, mid way through the show I was phoning and texting the buddies saying ” Dang this chic is pretty good” …….well we know what happened last year. I was watching from afar. I almost gave up hope. Then the 2nd most beutiful sight I ever seen in my life emerged dressed in white and hitting a high note that gives Carrie Underwood goose bumps. Ms. Lovato you did it! Now just remember never ever ever ever ever ever give up.