1.Her full name is Demetria Devonne Lovato.
2.Demi was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico August 20 1992, but raised in Dallas Texas.
3.She is part Mexican, Irish, Italian and English.
4.Demi’s mom, Dianna Hart De La Gaza, is a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and country music singer.
5.She started singing at a young age. The first time was at a kindergarten talent show where she sang "My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion.
6.Demi began acting at age 7 and met her long-time friend Selena Gomez on the set of Barney & Friends
7.She was the 2000-2001 Mini Miss Texas.
8.The first concert she ever went to see was by Carlos Santana.
9.Lovato didn’t have things handed to her. It took Lovato two tryouts at Disney before she was cast in As the Bell Rings, according to the Wall Street Journal.
10.Later, she auditioned for Disney’s Camp Rock and Sonny With A Chance on the same day, and got both parts.
11.Demi was bullied as a kid at school and as a result asked her mom to be homeschooled after seventh grade. "I had a really tough time when I was in middle school. People would write 'hate petitions' [about me] and send them around to be signed. They'd have CD-bashing parties of my demos. They'd come to my house, stand across the street and yell things. It was a very emotional time for me, and all I wanted to do was get away,” she told People magazine.
12.In 2008, Lovato covered the Academy Award-nominated song, "That's How You Know" from Enchanted on the DisneyMania 6 album.
13.She went to Applebees for her Sweet 16
14.She received her high school diploma through home-schooling in 2009, a year before her anticipated graduation date
15.Demi Lovato was the star of her own Disney Channel television show called Sonny with a Chance. She started this show in 2009, filming 16 episodes for the first season.
