WWD
Issue: July 2009
"Tween Queen: The Rise of Demi Lovato"
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 r