Joining
the
show
as
Gabrielle
and
Carlos’
daughter
Juanita
after
the
time
jump
between
seasons
four
and
five,
De
La
Garza
remained
with
the
show
through
its
series
finale.
Since
Desperate
Housewives
wrapped,
the
younger
half-sister
of
Demi
Lovato
has
grown
up
(she
turned
18
in
December
2019)
and
has
appeared
in
the
films
Caged
No
More
and
Gnome
Alone
as
well
as
in
shows
like
Good
Luck
Charlie
and
Bad
Teacher.
De
La
Garza
has
gotten
candid
about
the
hate
she
received
over
her
appearance
while
on
Desperate
Housewives,
which
she
said
led
her
to
develop
an
eating
disorder.
“I
would
spend
hours
and
hours
reading
comments,”
she
recalled
on
a
2023
episode
of
the
Heart
of
the
Matter
podcast. “They
said
things
like
they
wanted
me
to
die
because
of
what
I
looked
like.
It
was
like, ‘Ugly
fat
cow.
And
I
hope
you
get
cancer
and
die
because
you’re
so
fat.’
And
just
horrible,
horrible,
horrible,
horrible
things.
And
this
is
when
I
was
6,
7,
8
years
old.”
“My
first
memories
of
trying
to
starve
myself,
I
was
7
years
old,”
she
continued. “A
lot
of
it
came
from
reading
those
comments.
My
family
had
no
idea
that
this
was
going
on.
My
mom
had
no
idea
that
I
was
seeing
these
things,
that
I
was
reading
these
things,
because
I
was
very,
very
sneaky
about
it.”
De
La
Garza
has
gone
from
being
part
of
the
Desperate
Housewives
family
to
starting
her
own.
In
September
2024,
she
announced
she’s
expecting
a
baby
with
Ryan
Mitchell.
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