Demi Lovato's Sister Just Announced She's Pregnant. But Do You Recognize Her from Her Early TV Role?

Mar. 15, 2025

Eva Longoria and Madison De La Garza on ‘Desperate Housewives’ in 2004 and De La Garza in 2014.Photo:Ron Tom/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty, David Livingston/Getty

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Demi Lovato’syounger sisterMadison De La Garzaannounced her pregnancy on Sept. 5, almost two decades after taking on her memorable role onDesperate Housewives.

De La Garza’s news came more than 10 years after she ended her 72-episode run onDesperate Housewives,on which she played Jaunita Solis from 2008 to 2012. The character was the daughter ofEva Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis and her husband Carlos (Ricardo Chavira).

Eva Longoria, Daniella Baltodano, Madison De La Garza and Ricardo Chavira on Desperate Housewives in 2009.Ron Tom/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Ron Tom/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

“We never explicitly talked about it, but [Longoria] definitely went out of her way to make me feel like I was pretty and like I was special, and she made me feel like I was family,” explained De La Garza. “And if I ever did want to go to her with these things, I absolutely could have.”

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Eva Longoria and Madison De La Garza in a scene from “Desperate Housewives”.Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Reflecting on her experience on theDesperate Housewivesset in a 2023 interview withAccess Hollywood, she shared that she and Longoria were so close, their families event spent the Easter holiday together one year.

“I still want to be her,” De La Garza gushed about theOnly Murders in the Buildingstar. “She was seriously like a second mom to me. I can’t even explain the ways that she was there for me and for my family.”

The former child star also said she thinks about a reunion with the cast of the early 2000s hit “all the time.”

“If they called me up and told me to get in hair and makeup at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning, I would be like, ‘I’m there, cool, dope. Give me the address….’ "

She admitted that she’s “dreamt” about it.

Madison De La Garza and Brian Austin Green on “Desperate Housewives”.Ron Tom/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

De La Garza has mostly stayed out of the spotlight in recent years, aside from appearances in some of Lovato’s projects. She was also involved in short films in 2018 and 2023. Per a November 2023videoon TikTok, De La Garza has been working as a teaching assistant.

source: people.com