Demi Lovato won’t let her future daughter enter the entertainment industry before she turns 18

Demi Lovato’s future children will not follow the same path as her.

Before the release of their new Child star documentary, the 31-year-old singer and actress (who uses the pronouns she/her) opened up about The Hollywood Reporter about why she will keep her future daughter away from the entertainment industry until she grows up.

When asked how she would react if her child asked her to be a musician, Lovato told the outlet, “I would say, ‘Let’s study music theory and get you ready for your 18th birthday, because we can’t do it before then. Not because I don’t believe in you or I don’t love you or I don’t want you to be happy, but because I want you to have a childhood, the childhood that I didn’t have.'”

The “Heart Attack” singer said she would also encourage people to find a “Plan B” – “something I wish I had done because sometimes I think it’s time for me to move on, but I’m in this strange position in my career because my income still depends on music.”

Lovato entered the world of child stardom at a very young age, first making notable appearances on Barney and his friends before starring in Disney Channel’s Camp Rock as a teenager and quickly achieved superstar status.

Now she talks about her experiences as a minor in Hollywood in the upcoming Hulu film Child starwhich will be released on September 17th and features Lovato chatting with other former young celebrities such as Raven-Symoné, Kenan Thompson, Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Alyson Stoner and JoJo Siwa.

Elsewhere in the THR In that interview, Lovato talked about how working as a child complicated her family dynamics: “When the child is the breadwinner, it almost inevitably changes the dynamic of a family, and then the question becomes: How do you discipline that breadwinner?”

Her mother, Dianna De La Garza, and stepfather, Eddie De La Garza, who raised Demi after her father, Patrick, died in 2013, “tried to ground me,” she recalled. “But I was a selfish child star and I thought I was on top of the world. I’d say, ‘But I pay the bills,’ and what do you say?”

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When Lovato looks back today, she knows why she longed for success and attention in Hollywood as a child. “I think part of me always thought that if I made it in the industry, I would get the love of my biological father, which I didn’t have,” she said.

Lovato continued, “And he was struggling, and I think I was always chasing success because I knew that would put me back in his sights and he would be proud of me.”

“But now that I’ve overcome those daddy complexes, I don’t need the industry as much as I used to and I’m proud of myself for making it here,” she added.