Why Demi Lovato cut their hair short after coming out

Demi Lovato cut their hair short in an iconic move after announcing that they go by the pronouns they/them going forward.

Speaking up about their decision, Lovato said they wanted to let go of all the gender norms.

“I think it came in two tiers for me. I think the first tier was going to a friend’s poetry slam show that I identified so profoundly with, because they were talking about not conforming to genders and identifying not as male or female," Lovato told Jane Fonda during an episode of their 4D with Demi Lovato podcast.

"And when I heard their take on that, I identified with it so much that I thought to myself: ‘Oh, there’s something here. There’s something that I’ve never known about my entire life but it’s clicking now. And I need to research this, I need to do more work, I need to sit with it,'" the 28-year-old said.

“So I did. I sat with it for over a year," Lovato went on to say, “The reasoning behind me cutting my hair off was because I was shedding all of the gender norms that have been placed on me growing up female in this world.

“I just always found that men were at the root of pushing their agendas on me to be a sexy pop star, to whatever would make other people the most money. And I had to break that mold because I had to find the freedom for myself in order to survive, to live," they concluded.