Demi Lovato Talks Inner Beauty, Outer Beauty, and How Being Latina Affects Her Self-Esteem
This was the year that Demi Lovato shifted her career into high gear. Gone was the chatter about the setbacks that surrounded her in 2010, when she checked into a treatment center for eating disorders. Instead the actress and singer started to generate a new type of headline, one focused on her power to inspire a whole generation of young girls with both her advocacy and her music.
The world watched Lovato, who is part Mexican, grow up on-screen in several top-rated Disney shows. In real life she was a kid in Dallas who just wanted to sing. Fast-forward to today, and her music is everywhere. Her fourth album, Demi, debuted on the top-10 list last year and led to her first solo world tour. If that wasn’t enough to keep her busy, she wrote a New York Times best-selling book, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year, supports causes like gay rights and mental health reform, signed a spokesmodel contract with the makeup line NYC New York Color, and launched a hair-extension line and a skin care collection called Devonne by Demi.