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"This time last year Demi Lovato had&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to believe&amp;amp;#8212;checked into a treatment center to get help for her struggles with bulimia, anorexia and self-injury. And instead of the usual celebrity tactic (deny, deny, deny), Lovato has taken a much braver route: going public about her self-described meltdown and the childhood bullying she&amp;amp;#8217;s talked openly about, all in an effort to help other young women and girls. This winter Lovato embarks on a world tour for her perfectly named album Unbroken. We&amp;amp;#8217;re all ears. Glamour: These pictures from the shoot are gorgeous. I love your new look. What is beautiful to you? Demi Lovato: Having strength and confidence in yourself. I think that women who know who they are are beautiful. Glamour: And do you feel like you&amp;amp;#8217;re there? Or are you still working on that? DL: I feel like I&amp;amp;#8217;m there. I feel beautiful, you know? I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s your go-to makeup? DL: Concealer, foundation, blush, mascara. I can feel glamorous without makeup too, especially on my lips. They&amp;amp;#8217;re naturally reddish, so I often let them go. Glamour: How has your look changed in the last year? DL: Whenever you&amp;amp;#8217;re going through, you know, stuff, it definitely reflects in the way you wear your makeup and hair. Wearing less makeup is more comfortable for me. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s one thing that has really stuck with you from your experience in treatment? DL: I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally, you know, been through so much that I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone. Glamour: Is it true that you got tattoos on top of your cutting scars? DL: I think scars are like battle wounds&amp;amp;#8212;beautiful, in a way. They show what you&amp;amp;#8217;ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it. My tattoos say &amp;amp;#8220;Stay strong.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;Stay&amp;amp;#8221; on one [wrist] and &amp;amp;#8220;strong&amp;amp;#8221; on the other. Now I&amp;amp;#8217;m able to look at them and be thankful for being alive. I think that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been blessed over the past year to be able to start over. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s the healthiest thing that you do for yourself every day? DL: Pray. I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up. Glamour: I want to ask you about some of your lyrics. In &amp;amp;#8220;For the Love of a Daughter,&amp;amp;#8221; you sing about the &amp;amp;#8220;family war&amp;amp;#8221; and say, &amp;amp;#8220;Your selfish hands always expecting more.&amp;amp;#8221; Is this experience about your childhood? DL: I think people read way too much into that line. Glamour: What do you mean by that? Do people think it&amp;amp;#8217;s abuse and it&amp;amp;#8217;s not? DL: I just don&amp;amp;#8217;t think people need to be that literal. I think that could just be, like, a financial thing. Glamour: In &amp;amp;#8220;Skyscraper,&amp;amp;#8221; you sing, &amp;amp;#8220;Go on and try to tear me down, I will be rising from the ground.&amp;amp;#8221; Who are you singing to? DL: It&amp;amp;#8217;s to every person who tried to bring me down. Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down. For me, I think of the people who really weren&amp;amp;#8217;t there for me when I went into treatment. It was a really dark time for me because I had only a few people&amp;amp;#8212;I had surrounded myself with so many artificial friendships. It&amp;amp;#8217;s about those people too. Glamour: You also sing, &amp;amp;#8220;You never really can fix a heart.&amp;amp;#8221; Do you believe that? DL: I think every time you get your heart broken, there&amp;amp;#8217;s a little piece of it that chips away, and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think you ever get that piece back. But I think you&amp;amp;#8217;re able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Miss: 19 Cute Celebrity Haircuts to Consider"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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