Demi Lovato doesn’t want her future kids to have a childhood like hers.
The singer and actress told The Hollywood Reporter that if she were to have a daughter, she would steer her away from the entertainment and music industry until adulthood.
“I’d say, ‘Let’s study music theory and prepare you for the day you turn 18, because it’s not happening before that,’” Lovato told the outlet. “Not because I don’t believe in you or love you or want you to be happy, but because I want you to have a childhood, the childhood that I didn’t have.'”
The 31-year-old said she’d urge her child to have a “backup plan,” saying it’s, “something I wish I’d done because sometimes I think it’s time for me to move on, but I’m in this weird position in my career because I still rely on music for my income.”
Lovato is a former child star, having appeared in Barney and Friends at six years old and then Disney Channel’s Camp Rock when she was a teen. She’s now gearing up for the release of the forthcoming Hulu film, Child Star, which sees her sitting down with other celebrities who also spent their childhood in the limelight, including Raven-Symoné, Kenan Thompson, Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Alyson Stoner, and JoJo Siwa. Child Star is set to release Sept. 17 on the streamer.
As a kid, Lovato supported her family, which was a complicated position for her to be in at such a young age. “Having the child be the breadwinner almost inherently changes the dynamic of a family, and then it becomes, like, how do you discipline that breadwinner?”
Her mother and stepfather, Dianna and Eddie De La Garza, would “try to ground me,” she said. “But I was an egotistical child star, and I thought I was on top of the world. I’d be like, ‘But I pay the bills,’ and what do you say to that?”
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