“ They said things like they wanted me to die because of what I looked like . It was just horrifying . "
This post contains discussion of body image issues and eating disorders.#
If you’re aDesperate Housewivesfan, you already knowDemi Lovato’s half-sister Madison De La Garza. She played Juanita Solis, the daughter ofEva Longoria’s character Gabrielle Solis.#
Madison says that the “whole joke” of Juanita as a character was “that Eva was this thin, beautiful model and her daughter turned out to be quite the opposite,” and she called the public’s “reactions” to her character “shocking.”#
“A lot of people came at it in a way that they were ‘concerned for my health,’" she explained. “And I personally believe that that’s just not true, that that was a cover-up so that they could just judge a 6-year-old.”#
Madison also said that she found solace in the support from her costar Eva. “We never explicitly talked about it, but she definitely went out of her way to make me feel like I was pretty and like I was special,” she recalled, “and she made me feel like I was family.”#
“And if I ever did want to go to her with these things, I absolutely could have.”#
Listen to the entire interviewhere.#
TheNational Eating Disorders Associationhelpline is 1-800-931-2237; for 24/7 crisis support, text “NEDA” to 741741.#







