Demi Lovato’s future children will not follow the same path as her.
Ahead of the release of her new Child star documentary, the 31-year-old singer and actress (who uses the pronouns she/they) opened up The Hollywood Reporter about why she will keep her future daughter away from the entertainment industry until she grows up.
Asked how she would react to her child asking to become a performer, Lovato told the outlet, “I would say, ‘Let’s study music theory and prepare you for the day you turn 18, because it doesn’t happen before then. Not because that I don’t believe in you, nor do I love you, nor do I want you to be happy, but because I want you to have a childhood, a childhood that I didn’t have.'”
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Demi Lovato on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter.
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The “Heart Attack” singer said she’d also encourage finding a “backup plan” — “something I wish I had done because sometimes I think it’s time to move on, but I’m in this weird position in my career because I’m still leaning on music as income.”
Lovato entered the world of child stars at a very young age, and first appeared on Barney and friends before landing a starring role on the Disney Channel Camp Rock as a teenager and quickly rose to superstar status.
Now she’s talking about her experience working in Hollywood as a minor in an upcoming Hulu movie Child starwhich comes out on September 17 and features Lovato talking to former young celebrities including Raven-Symoné, Kenan Thompson, Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Alyson Stoner and JoJo Siwa.
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Demi Lovato.
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Elsewhere in THR interview, Lovato talked about how working as a child complicated her family dynamic: “Being a foster child almost inherently changes the family dynamic, and then it becomes, like, how do you discipline that foster child?”
Her mother Dianna De La Garza and stepfather Eddie De La Garza, who raised Demi after the death of her father Patrick in 2013, “would try to ban me,” she recalled. “But I was an egotistical child star and I thought I was on top of the world. I’d say, ‘But I pay the bills,’ and how about that?”
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Demi Lovato.
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Demi Lovato ‘chased’ child stardom for ‘daddy issues’ and ‘getting the love from my biological father that I didn’t have’
Looking back from today’s perspective, Lovato has an idea about why she craved Hollywood success and attention as a child. “I think part of me always thought that if I made it in the industry, I would get the love from my biological father that I didn’t have,” she said.
Lovato continued, “He was troubled, too, and I think I always chased success because I knew it would put me back in his sights and make him proud of me.”
“But now that I’ve dealt with those issues with my dad, I don’t need the industry like I used to and I’m proud of myself for getting here,” she added.
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