Growing up, this future celebrity didn’t have an easy childhood, as it was marked by a mother who constantly drank and even traded her for a few hundred dollars. She rose above it all, achieved great success in her career, and is now a mother of three girls.

Some Background Information about the Actress
Her birth name is Demi Gene Guynes, and she was born on November 11, 1962. Her birth father, Air Force Airman Charles Harmon Sr., left her mother, Virginia King, after a marriage of only two months.

By the time this future star was born, her parents were no longer together. When she was three months old, her mother remarried a newspaper advertising salesman, Dan Guynes. Her stepfather changed jobs a lot, and this meant they had to move houses several times.

At 12, she underwent two eye surgeries to correct severe strabismus. She also suffered from kidney dysfunctions, and at 13, she discovered the truth about her birth father. While still a teenager, she left her mother to live with her grandmother.