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Madison De La Garza is looking back at being cast on Desperate Housewives.
The 21-year-old actress, who is also the half-sister of Demi Lovato, joined the cast of the hit ABC series for season five as Juanita Solis, daughter of Eva Longoria‘s character Gabrielle Solis, in 2008 when she was just six-years-old.
In a new interview, Madison recalled her “first memories of trying to starve herself” at age 7 after reading cruel and hurtful comments about her appearance online.
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“The reactions that I got to my character on Desperate Housewives, it was just shocking,” Madison shared on the Heart of the Matter podcast. “A lot of people came at it in a way that they were ‘concerned for my health.’ 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 said that she was “was never allowed to be on a computer unsupervised at that age,” but she recalled sneaking online and spending “hours and hours” reading hurtful comments on YouTube videos and TMZ.
“I would just spend a crazy amount of time reading through these comments, and most all of them were just atrocious,” Madison said. “They said things like they wanted me to die because of what I looked like. It was just horrible. And this was when I was 7, 8 years old.”
“Reading comments like that definitely affected my mental health and ultimately played into me developing an eating disorder at a very young age,” she added.
Madison went on to recall how she was cast on the show as the “opposite” of Eva‘s character.
“The whole joke of my character was that Eva was this thin, beautiful model and her daughter turned out to be quite the opposite,” Madison explained. “And so, I think
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Madison De La Garza, well-known as the child star from later seasons of ABC's opened up this week about her battle with an eating disorder sparked by cyberbullying following the show. «They said things like they wanted me to die because of what I looked like,» De La Garza told podcast host Elizabeth Vargas this week. While speaking about her experience with online attacks, the actress shared memories of sneaking onto the computer to find comments about herself. «It was just horrible, like, 'ugly fat cow,' and 'I hope you get cancer and die because you're so fat,» De La Garza recalled.De La Garza played Juanita Solis, the daughter of Eva Longoria's Gabrielle Solis, on the show. She took on the role in season 5, after the series jumped five years ahead.
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"Desperate Housewives" star Madison De La Garza admitted that the cyberbullying she received while starring on the drama led her to "starve" herself. De La Garza, who portrayed Eva Longoria's daughter, Juanita Solis, in the series, revealed she developed an eating disorder at 7 years old due to the "horrible" things said about her online.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Madison De La Garza, who gained television fame as a child star thanks to her role on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” opened up to journalist and former “20/20” anchor Elizabeth Vargas on the “Heart of the Matter” podcast about battling cyberbullying and an eating disorder following her run on the show (via Entertainment Weekly). De La Garza appeared on four seasons of “Desperate Housewives” as Juanita Solis, the daughter of Eva Longoria’s character, Gabrielle Solis. De La Garza took over the role of Gabrielle’s daughter in Season 5, when the show jumped ahead five years from the previous season. She was only six years old at the time. The actor stayed in the role through the final season of “Desperate Housewives,” which ended in May 2012.