All about Demi Lovato

Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter who made her debut as a child actress in Barney & Friends. In 2008, Lovato rose to prominence in the Disney Channel television film Camp Rock and signed a recording contract with Hollywood Records. She released her debut album, Don't Forget, that September; it has been certified goldby the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 530,000 copies. In 2009, Lovato received her owntelevision series, Sonny with a Chance. Her second album, Here We Go Again, was released that July and debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200; its title track became her first single to break the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 15, and being certified platinum.

After the release of additional television films and their soundtracks in 2010, Lovato's personal issues put her career on hiatus and ended Sonny with a Chance after its second season. Her third album, Unbroken (2011), addresses several of her difficulties. Its leadsingle, "Skyscraper", became Lovato's first single at the time to be certified platinum in the United States; its second single, "Give Your Heart a Break", was certified triple platinum. Lovato was as a judge and mentor on the American version of The X Factor in 2012 and 2013. Her fourth album, Demi (2013), had first-week sales of 110,000 copies (the best debut week of Lovato's recording career). Its lead single, "Heart Attack" became her first song to chart within the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Lovato has received a number of accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, thirty one Teen Choice Awards nominations (twelve of which she won), five People's Choice Awards, two ALMA Awards and a Billboard Touring Awards. In 2013, Maxim ranked her 26th on its Hot 100 list and Billboard ranked her second on its Social 50 Artists of the Year list. Outside the entertainment industry, Lovato is involved with several social and environmental causes. In May 2013, she was cited for her dedication as a mentor to teens and young adults with mental-health challenges at a National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day hosted by theSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Washington, D.C.. She has also become an advocate for the LGBTcommunity. In 2014 she was announced as the Grand Marshal for LA PRIDE week, and that same year she became the face for HRC's America's for Marriage Equality Campaign.

Life And Career

1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings

Demetria Devonne Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to engineer and musician  Patrick Martin Lovato (1960 — June 22, 2013)  and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader  Dianna Lee Hart (born Dianna Lee Smith; August 8, 1962).  Lovato has an older sister, Dallas (born February 4, 1988);  a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza,  and an older paternal half-sister, Amber,  to whom she first spoke when she was 20.  Her parents divorced in the late summer of 1994, shortly after her second birthday. Lovato's father was of Mexican and Spanish descent,  and she also has Irish, Italian and English ancestry. Patrick's patrilineal great-grandmother, Maria Cristina Perea, was a daughter of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea (1830–1913) and a great-granddaughter of Santa Fe de Nuevo Méxicogovernor Francisco Xavier Chávez.

Lovato was raised in Dallas, Texas.  With Selena Gomez, she began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends as Angela. She began playing piano at age seven and guitar at ten,  when she also began dancing and acting classes.  Lovato told Ellen DeGeneres that she was bullied so badly that she asked forhomeschooling, and she received her high-school diploma through homeschooling in April 2009.  She later became a spokesperson for the anti-bullying organization PACER and appeared on America's Next Top Model to speak out against bullying.  In 2006 Lovato appeared on Prison Break, and on Just Jordan the following year.

Personal Life 

Lovato dated musician Trace Cyrus in 2009.  In 2010, she briefly dated Joe Jonas.  On her eighteenth birthday, she bought a Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles; however, she decided to live in a "sober house" in Los Angeles after leaving rehab in January 2011.

Lovato had no interest in forging a relationship with her late father, Patrick, after his divorce from her mother.  Patrick died of cancer on June 22, 2013, at age 53. After his death Lovato said that he had been mentally ill, and in his honor she created the Lovato Treatment Scholarship Program.

Personal struggles

Lovato had experienced depression, an eating disorder and self-harm before going into rehab in November 2010. On 30 October 2010, Lovato withdrew from the Jonas Brothers Live in Concert tour, entering a treatment facility for "physical and emotional issues". It was reported that she decided to enter treatment after punching female backup dancer Alex Welch, which led to an intervention by her management and family, and she took "100 percent, full responsibility" for the incident. On January 28 Lovato completed inpatient treatment at Timberline Knolls and returned home,  acknowledging that she had had bulimia, harmed herself and was "self-medicating" with drugs and alcohol "like a lot of teens do to numb their pain".  She added that she "basically had a nervous breakdown" and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during her treatment. Lovato later admitted that she had used cocaine several times a day and smuggled cocaine and alcohol onto airplanes.  In April she became a contributing editor forSeventeen magazine, describing her struggles.  In March 2012 MTV aired a documentary (Stay Strong) about Lovato's rehab and recovery,  and she began work on her fourth album the following month.  In January 2013, it was reported that Lovato had been living in a sober-living facility in Los Angeles for more than a year because she felt it was the best way to avoid returning to her addictions and eating disorder.

Beliefs

Lovato is a Christian, praying with her band before they perform, and an active supporter of gay rights. When the Defense of Marriage Act was repealed in June 2013, she tweeted: "Gay, straight, lesbian, bi. ... No one is better than any one else. What an incredible day for California AND for equality." Lovato later said, "I believe in gay marriage, I believe in equality. I think there's a lot of hypocrisy with religion. But I just found that you can have your own relationship with God, and I still have a lot of faith."  In an early November 2013 interview with Latina magazine, she said: "I'm the closest I've ever been with God. I have my own relationship with God and that's all that matters," and that she finds spirituality to be important part of maintaining balance in life.

On December 23, 2011, Lovato posted a message on Twitter criticizing her former network for airing episodes of Shake It Up and So Random! in which characters joked about eating disorders. Disney Channel publicity officials quickly took action, apologizing to Lovato and removing the episodes from the network's broadcast and video on demandsources after additional criticism (following Lovato's post) on the network's public-relations account.

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