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7. Demi Lovato Documentary: Simply Complicated.

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The "famous" life is not easy,you go through a lot of things.. but you manage to get through them to keep doing what you love.

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Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated - Official Documentary

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Started with a small role in a kids show to becoming one of the biggest pop stars.

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Who Is Selena Gomez?

Born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas, Selena Gomez got her start in show business with a two-year run on the kids show Barney and Friends. After a few bit parts in movies, Gomez guest starred on the Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana. In 2007, she was cast as the lead for Wizards of Waverly Place, and in 2009 she released the pop album Kiss & Tell. Other projects over the years include the 2013 film Spring Breakers and the 2015 album Revival, featuring the single "Good for You." Gomez has also earned praise for going public with her battle with lupus.

Early Life and Acting Career

Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, on July 22, 1992, to Amanda Cornett and Ricardo Gomez. Her mother, commonly known as Mandy, gave birth to Gomez at the age of 16.

Gomez began her career in show business in 2001 when she performed on the popular children's program Barney & Friends as Gianna. Dropped from the series after two years, Gomez auditioned for other shows without much success. She landed a small role in the movie Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over in 2003 and a bit part as Julie on Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire in 2005. She also signed on to play Emily Grace Garcia in Brain Zapped in 2006, and even recorded a song for the show.

In 2006, Gomez guest starred as Gwen in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody on the Disney Channel. Earning more work from Disney, Gomez was tapped to play the evil Mikayla for the Hannah Montana series. She then landed her first starring role when the channel cast her as Alex Russo in the show Wizards of Waverly Place in 2007. The hit series ran until 2012.

In 2008, Gomez made her first animated movie, Horton Hears a Who!, and starred in the ABC Family movie Another Cinderella Story with fellow Disney Channel actor Andrew Seeley. Selena filmed two projects for the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise as well. The first was Princess Protection Program, released in 2009 and also starring Demi Lovato. Later in 2009, she starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie.

Growing Music Career

Along with her acting, Gomez focused on her burgeoning music career by recording a cover of "Cruella de Vil" for DisneyMania 6 in 2008. She also recorded three tunes for the soundtrack to her movie Another Cinderella Story and a song for the animated movie Tinker Bell. Other feature film contributions included the single "One and the Same" for Princess Protection Program as a duet with Lovato, as well as four songs for the soundtrack to Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie.

In 2008, Gomez signed a record contract with Hollywood Records and began working on her debut album, Kiss and Tell, which was released in September 2009. Gomez also had a cameo in the Jonas Brothers' music video for the single "Burnin' Up," released in 2008.

Recent Projects

In 2012, Gomez performed the voice of Mavis in the animated film Hotel Transylvania. She then starred alongside James Franco and Vanessa Hudgens, among others, in Harmony Korine's comedic crime thriller Spring Breakers (2013). That same year, Gomez co-starred with Ethan Hawke in the action thriller Getaway. She also continued to pursue her musical career, releasing Stars Dance in 2013 and a greatest hits collection, For You, in 2014. That same year Gomez was featured in the comedy Behaving Badly, with Mary-Louise Parker.

Gomez returned to the charts with the single "Good for You" in the summer of 2015, and in October of that year released her fifth album, Revival. She also contributed vocals to Hotel Transylvania 2, released that fall as well, and joined the cast of Season 9 of The Voice as a mentor for Gwen Stefani's team.

Gomez enjoyed more success in 2017 with such acclaimed tracks as "Bad Liar" and "It Ain't Me," a collaboration with Norwegian DJ Kygo. She also teamed with rapper Gucci Mane for "Fetish" and the mysterious Marshmello for "Wolves."

Lupus Battle

In early January 2014, it was reported that Gomez had been battling lupus-an autoimmune disease that can cause facial swelling, fatigue, headaches and joint pain-for more than two years. In September 2017, the singer and actress revealed that advancing symptoms of lupus had forced her to undergo a kidney transplant earlier in the year, with her roommate and friend Francia Raísa serving as the donor.

One month later, Gomez provided details of the experience with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie in an NBC news interview: "She lived with me in this interesting time where my kidneys were just done," recalled Gomez. "The thought of asking somebody to [donate] was really difficult for me. And she volunteered and did it. ... The fact that she was a match, I mean, that's unbelievable."

Thanks to Raísa, Gomez was able to quickly move to the operating room for the life-saving procedure. While there were additional complications during the operation, Gomez has recovered nicely, noting that there was a 3 to 5 percent chance of her lupus resurfacing.

On November 19, 2017, Gomez returned to the stage at the American Music Awards. She drew criticism from some for what appeared to be a lip-synced performance, though others supported her overall effort just months after undergoing a life-saving operation.

The following day, Gomez was honored at the Lupus Research Alliance Annual Gala in New York City for helping to raise more than $500,000 toward research for the disease. During her speech, she recalled the moment doctors stressed to her the urgency of undergoing a transplant procedure. "Maybe I wasn't necessarily really good at knowing what that meant so it actually got to a point where it was life-or-death," she said. "Thankfully, one of my best friends gave me her kidney and it was the ultimate gift of life. And I am doing quite well now."

On November 30, 2017, Gomez was named woman of the year at the annual Billboard Women in Music event. "I would like to thank my amazing team and my family because they stuck with me through some really hard times," she told the crowd. "And I got to do a lot this year, even though I had a couple of other things to do."

Personal

Outside of acting and music, Gomez has served as a spokesperson for Borden Milk, appearing in the organization's advertising campaign and print ads. She also worked on a campaign that encouraged teenagers to learn more about the 2008 presidential candidates. A longtime supporter of UNICEF, Gomez became one of the organization's ambassadors in 2009, and works to help the world's children through her C.A.N. (Charity, Action, Now) initiative.

After first meeting in 2009, Gomez eventually entered into an on- and off-again relationship with pop star Justin Bieber. She has also been linked to fellow musician The Weeknd.

Gomez has publicly feuded with her mother, Mandy Teefy. The two unfollowed each other on Instagram in December 2017, with some speculating it was because the singer had rekindled her romance with Bieber, though another source said the situation was more complicated than that. Teefy later told Gossip Cop that she wasn't happy with her daughter dating Bieber, but said there was little she could do about it. "Selena can live her life however she wants as long as she is happy, safe and healthy," she said.

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Selena Gomez, who became sick due to complications from lupus, shared details of the life-saving kidney transplant she received from a friend. "I had arthritis. My kidneys were shutting down. My mentality was just to keep going," she said on the NBC's Today Show.

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At the age of 14 she was discovered on her spring break vacation in NY, talk about luck...

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Jennifer Lawrence is known for her roles in 'Winter's Bone,' 'The Hunger Games,' 'X-Men' and 'Joy.' She won an Oscar for her role in 'Silver Linings Playbook.'

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Equally able to wow audiences in drama, comedy and musicals, she has come to be considered one of the greatest actresses of our time.

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Lead Actress Oscar

A chameleon onscreen, Meryl Streep spent much of the 1980s submerged in a variety of roles. In Sophie's Choice (1982), she convincingly played a Polish woman traumatized by her experiences during the Holocaust. Streep won her second Academy Award-her first for best actress-for her work on the film. In Out of Africa (1985), she took on the role of a Danish plantation owner living in Kenya. The role earned her another Academy Award nomination.

As she reached her 40s, Streep continued to find challenging roles-a feat many mature actresses have struggled with in Hollywood. She received an Academy Award nomination for her work in several films, including two big-screen adaptations-one of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge (1990) and the other of Robert James Waller's romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), in which she starred opposite Clint Eastwood. Streep also received an Oscar nod for her work in Music of the Heart (1999), which tells the true story of a teacher who brings music into the lives of kids in New York's Harlem neighborhood by teaching them how to play the violin.

By the start of the new millennium, Streep was as busy as ever. In 2002, she appeared in two critically acclaimed films: The Hours and Adaptation. Streep was then nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of author Susan Orlean in Adaptation. The following year, Streep lit up the small screen in the television adaptation of the award-winning play Angels in America. She won her second Emmy Award for her work on the program, which had her tackling several roles.

Streep got a chance to show some of her comic skills as a villain in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004). Continuing to explore lighthearted fare, she starred in Prime (2005), a romantic comedy with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg. Streep played psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, whose client falls in love with her son. She also played the inimitable magazine editor Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), for which she earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for best actress. That same year, she was cast as country music singer Yolanda Johnson in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, and she again showed off her vocal abilities as Donna in the film adaptation of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia! (2008).

Returning to more serious work, Streep appeared in the 2008 film Doubt, which addresses sexual abuse in the Catholic church. She played a nun who becomes suspicious of a priest's behavior ( Phillip Seymour Hoffman) toward a young student. Streep yet again earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nods.

Real-World Portrayals

In 2009, Streep took on one of the culinary world's most beloved figures, Julia Child. She played the famous chef in the film Julie & Julia, based on the bestselling nonfiction book of the same title. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for lead actress in a comedy or musical, and received an Academy Award nomination. She then starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated, with co-stars Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, which earned her another Golden Globe nod.

Streep received widespread acclaim for her work in 2011's The Iron Lady. She portrayed former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a dynamic and forceful politician who was both admired by some and detested by others. While Thatcher was called cold and unfeeling, Streep believed that Thatcher "was canny about the fact that in order to be taken seriously, she wasn't able to show certain emotions because she was a woman." Streep's thoughtful and nuanced performance as Thatcher garnered her several awards, including a Golden Globe.

The Iron Lady also brought Streep her third Academy Award in 2012. In her acceptance speech, the gifted performer seemed to be especially modest and self-effacing. "When they called my name, I had this feeling that I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no! Oh come on, why her? Again!'"

Commenting on her last Academy Award victory, "I was a kid when I won this, like, 30 years ago. Two of the [current] nominees were not even conceived," Streep explained. While she may be an industry veteran, the Academy Awards still have a special meaning to this legendary star. "I thought I was so old and jaded, but they call your name and you just go into a sort of white light," Streep said later.

The following year Streep starred in the volatile family drama August: Osage County, earning yet another Oscar nomination, and 2014 saw the actress taking the lead in the dystopic sci-fi film The Giver. Later that year Streep was also featured as a witch in the screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods, for which she earned additional Golden Globe and Oscar nods.

Continued Success and Speaking Out

In 2015, Streep starred opposite her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer in the Jonathan Demme and Diablo Cody film Ricki and the Flash, playing an aging rock star who returns home to reconcile with her family. Later that year she portrayed real-world British voting activist Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette. In 2016, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of 1940s New York heiress Florence Foster Jenkins in the film by the same name, and a Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes.

During her acceptance speech, Streep warned against intolerance and disrespect and, without naming him, criticized president-elect Donald Trump for his campaign rhetoric and a 2015 incident where he appeared to mock a disabled New York Times reporter. She went on to speak about the importance of a "principled press to hold power to account" and the need to support journalists to help "safeguard the truth." She ended her acceptance speech quoting her recently deceased friend Carrie Fisher: "As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art."

In January 2017, Streep garnered a record 20th Academy Award nomination, for her performance in Florence Foster Jenkins. Later that year, Streep took on the role of the Washington Post's first female publisher, Kay Graham, in Steven Spielberg's The Post, a movie about the paper's attempts to publish the Pentagon Papers-a political cover-up about the Vietnam War. The film paired Streep and Tom Hanks together on the big screen for the first time, leading Golden Globe nominations for both of them and another Oscar nod for Streep.

The role also earned the actress the opportunity to speak at the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Awards in November. During the event, Streep recalled two incidents in her life involving physical violence-one of which involved chasing off a mugger with Cher -and thanked women reporters for helping to bring forth the recent influx of stories from victims of sexual harassment.

"Thank you, you intrepid, underpaid, over-extended, trolled, and un-extolled, young and old, battered and bold, bought and sold, hyper-alert crack-caffeine fiends," she said. "You're ambitious, contrarian, fiery, dogged and determined bulls-t detectives. ... And I, on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you."

In December, Streep came under fire from actress Rose McGowan, who accused the Oscar winner of being complicit in the cover-up of producer Harvey Weinstein's sexually abusive behavior. Additionally, McGowan derided the planned "silent protest" in which Streep and other prominent actresses would wear all black to the upcoming Golden Globes.

Streep responded with a statement in which she insisted she had no idea of Weinstein's behavior. "Not every actor, actress, and director who made films that H.W. distributed knew he abused women, or that he raped Rose in the '90s, other women before and others after, until they told us," she said. "I am truly sorry she sees me as an adversary, because we are both, together with all the women in our business, standing in defiance of the same implacable foe: a status quo that wants so badly to return to the bad old days, the old ways where women were used, abused and refused entry into the decision-making, top levels of the industry."

In January 2018, it was announced that Streep would join Season 2 of the already star-studded HBO series Big Little Lies. The decorated actress was set to play Mary Louise Wright-the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's Perry Wright-who shows up to town looking for answers in the wake of her son's death.

Around that time, TMZ reported that the Oscar queen had filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to request a monopoly on the use of her famous name for entertainment purposes. The list of services covered in the application included "live, televised, and movie appearances by a professional actress and entertainer," as well as public speaking engagements, autograph signings and websites related to the film industry.

Personal Life

Streep has been married to sculptor Don Gummer since 1978. The couple has four adult children, including daughters Mamie and Grace, who have both been pursuing acting careers.

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Meryl Streep will be joining 'Big Little Lies' Season Two on HBO and will be paid around $800,000 per episode. Playing the mother of Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgård), she arrives in Monterey concerned about her grandkids following her son's death.