Demi Lovato Furious Over Disney Anorexia Joke

After battling anorexia, singer/actress Demi Lovato is furious her former boss, the Disney Channel, joked about the eating disorder on a TV show. A character on the program Shake It Up said recently: “I could just eat you up. Well, if I ate.” Lovato responded in an incensed, all-capitals tweet. “I find it really funny how a company can lose one of their actresses from the pressures of an eating disorder, and yet still make jokes about that very disease," she wrote, referring to her own exit from a Disney series. "Eating disorders are not something to joke about," she added. She also complained that Disney actresses are getting "thinner and thinner," reports Us.

A similar anorexia joke was apparently made on So Random, which succeeded Sonny With a Chance, the series Lovato starred in and left shortly before she entered rehab for her eating disorder and cutting. The Disney Channel replied via Twitter to Lovato: “We hear you and are pulling both episodes as quickly as possible and re-evaluating them. It's never our intention to make light of eating disorders!” (More Demi Lovato stories.)