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Posted: 2021-04-20T16:18:51Z | Updated: 2021-04-20T16:18:51Z

Jameela Jamil is defending Demi Lovato in the wake of a controversy stemming from the singer taking issue with how a Los Angeles frozen yogurt shop offers diet items to customers.

Over the weekend, Lovato took aim at The Bigg Chill for its marketing of sugar-free options. She called the products triggering and awful, as she is in recovery from an eating disorder.

Finding it extremely hard to order froyo from @thebiggchillofficial when you have to walk past tons of sugar free cookies/other diet foods before you get to the counter, she wrote in an Instagram Story. Do better please.

Lovato also posted her direct messages with the shop, an exchange that ultimately went viral.

On Monday, Jamil weighed in on the ongoing drama, sharing her thoughts on her own Instagram Story.

Ok, I want to try to avoid making the story bigger than it already is, she wrote. But if an eating disorder advocate says she sees products that are positioned as guilt free, and it is potentially triggering, that doesnt mean shes too stupid to remember that diabetics exist. It just means that we need to change the marketing of products that are for peoples medical needs.

The Good Place star insisted that Lovato wasnt attempting to disregard peoples illnesses, calling her one of few celebrities reminding us to look out for mental illness.

Guilt free is diet culture terminology. We need to stop using that fucking term. We are so lucky to even have food. What in the name of shit and hell is there to feel guilty about. Thats a term of shame, Jamil wrote, emphasizing that its good to keep raising awareness on this matter until eating disorder rhetoric is OUT of our normalized mainstream culture.

Jamil went on to explain that using words like cheat, guilty, naughty, bad, [and] unhealthy creates the impression that food is either virtuous or sinful. Its problematic terminology, she wrote.