Demi Lovato emerges from the makeshift dressing room in a strapless black cocktail dress, her shiny black hair festooned with a pair of Louis Vuitton bunny ears from the fall runway, a look more Playboy Bunny than Mouseketeer. And no sooner does the Disney Channel star flash a smile — she likes it — than the getup is vetoed by the handler from her record label, on set for this WWD shoot. After a bit of protesting, Lovato makes do with a top hat and — ta-da! — Miley crisis averted.
Clearly, tween stardom is a treacherous sport, even for someone like Lovato, a child beauty pageant vet with a professional résumé reaching back to the age of six (when she first appeared alongside the big purple dinosaur on “Barney & Friends” with fellow Disney “It” girl Selena Gomez). On one hand, Lovato is polished-to-shiny, but on the other, she is still a 16-year-old whose concerns about “heartbreak, romance, friendships — the whole shebang,” as the Dallas native puts it, threaten to overshadow those about her image.
Source: WWD
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