Editing Demi Moore (section)

==Early life==
Demi Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes{{refn|group=n|name=born}} on November 11, 1962, in [[Roswell, New Mexico]]. Her biological father, [[U.S. Air Force|Air Force]] airman Charles Foster Harmon Sr.,<ref name="Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her">{{cite web |title=Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her |url=https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/ |website=[[OK!]] [[Star (magazine)|Magazine]] |date=February 12, 2012 |access-date=September 15, 2019 |archive-date=August 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811094453/https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/ |url-status=live }}</ref> deserted her then-18-year-old mother, Virginia (née King),<ref>{{cite web|title=Beverley Virginia King, Born 11/27/1943 in California|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/beverley_virginia_king_born_1943_2657822|website=californiabirthindex.org|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=July 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716213415/https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/beverley_virginia_king_born_1943_2657822|url-status=live}}</ref> after a two-month marriage before Moore's birth.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144">{{Cite magazine |last=Collins |first=Nancy |date=August 1991 |title=Demi's Big Moment |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/demi-moore-cover-story-august-1991 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |page=144 |access-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-date=April 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412233534/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/demi-moore-cover-story-august-1991 |url-status=live }}</ref> Charles came from [[Lanett, Alabama]], and Virginia was born in [[Richmond, California]] but had grown up in Roswell.{{sfn|Moore|2019|page=24}} Moore's maternal grandmother was raised on a farm in [[Elida, New Mexico]].{{sfn|Moore|2019|page=24}} Moore has deep roots in the [[South Central United States|South Central]] and [[Southern United States]], particularly Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved many times.<ref name="biochannel" /> In 1967 they had Moore's half-brother Morgan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.currentargus.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/01/05/actress-demi-moore-roswell-native-talks-life-love-and-money/2784373001/|title=Actress Demi Moore, a Roswell native, talks about life, love and money|first=Beth|last=Nieman|website=Carlsbad Current-Argus|access-date=October 7, 2020|archive-date=August 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812013632/https://www.currentargus.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/01/05/actress-demi-moore-roswell-native-talks-life-love-and-money/2784373001/|url-status=live}}</ref> Moore said in 1991, "My dad is Dan Guynes. He raised me. There is a man who would be considered my biological father who I don't really have a relationship with."<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /> Moore has half-siblings from Charlie Harmon's other marriages, but she does not keep in touch with them either.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/|title=Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her|date=February 11, 2012|access-date=September 15, 2019|archive-date=August 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811094453/https://okmagazine.com/news/demi-moores-long-lost-siblings-we-can-save-her/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Moore's stepfather Dan Guynes married and divorced Virginia twice.<ref>"Demi Moore." ''[[E! True Hollywood Story]]''. S7, E28. June 1, 2003.</ref> On October 20, 1980, a year after their second divorce from each other, Guynes committed suicide.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /><ref>"Found Dead". ''Carlsbad Current-Argus''. October 23, 1980. p. 4.</ref> Her biological father Harmon died in 1997 from liver cancer in [[Brazoria, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DAD IS DYING DEMI .. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH; Brother's plea for star to call off rift. - Free Online Library|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DAD+IS+DYING+DEMI+..+PLEASE+GET+IN+TOUCH;+Brother%27s+plea+for+star+to...-a061060590|website=thefreelibrary.com|access-date=November 24, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008210200/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DAD+IS+DYING+DEMI+..+PLEASE+GET+IN+TOUCH%3B+Brother%27s+plea+for+star+to...-a061060590|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>"Demi's dad dies in rift". ''Birmingham Evening Mail''. November 20, 1997. p. 4.</ref> Moore's mother had a long arrest record which included drunk driving and arson.<ref name="Fox News">{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Meagan|date=January 25, 2012|title=Demi Moore's hospitalization puts spotlight on alleged past demons|work=[[Fox News]]|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/demi-moores-hospitalization-puts-spotlight-on-alleged-past-demons|access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-date=October 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002131644/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/25/demi-moores-hospitalization-puts-spotlight-on-her-alleged-history-substance/|url-status=live}}</ref> Moore broke off contact with her mother in 1989, when she walked away halfway through a rehab stay Moore had financed at the [[Hazelden Foundation]] in Minnesota.<ref name="Eye of the Tiger"/> Virginia Guynes posed nude for the magazine ''[[High Society (magazine)|High Society]]'' in 1993,<ref name="'Tomorrow' has come">{{Cite news |last=Blowen |first=Michael |date=February 10, 1993 |title='Tomorrow' has come |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61734946.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+10%2C+1993&author=Michael+Blowen%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=%60Tomorrow%27+has+come&pqatl=google |url-access=subscription |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131162747/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61734946.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+10,+1993&author=Michael+Blowen,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=%60Tomorrow'+has+come&pqatl=google |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |access-date=August 10, 2024 |work=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> where she spoofed Moore's ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' pregnancy and bodypaint covers and parodied her clay scene from ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''. Moore and Guynes reconciled shortly before Guynes died of a brain tumor on July 2, 1998.<ref name="Dreams Die Hard">{{cite web|last=Gliatto|first=Tom|date=July 13, 1998|title=Dreams Die Hard|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-dreams-die-hard-vol-49-no-27/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908182714/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20125762%2C00.html|archive-date=September 8, 2015|access-date=September 26, 2012|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=49|issue=27}}</ref>

Moore spent her early childhood in Roswell, and later, [[Canonsburg, Pennsylvania]].{{sfn|Moore|2019|pages=17, 27}} Bob Gardner, a photographer for the ''Monongahela Daily Herald'' when Dan Guynes was head of advertising, recalled that Moore "looked malnourished and not so much abused as neglected. That haunting look as a child made me feel uneasy."<ref>Templeton, David (November 12, 1995). "Demi Now and Then". ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. p. W-5.</ref> She suffered from [[strabismus]], which was corrected by two operations, as well as kidney dysfunction.<ref name="biochannel">{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/demi-moore.html |title=Demi Moore |publisher=The Biography Channel UK |access-date=February 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330074250/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/demi-moore.html |archive-date=March 30, 2010  }}</ref> Moore learned that Guynes was not her real father at age 13, when she discovered a marriage certificate and inquired about the circumstances since she "saw my parents were married in February 1963. I was born in '62."<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" />

At age 14, Moore returned to her hometown of Roswell and lived with her grandmother for six months before relocating to Washington state, where her recently separated mother was residing near Seattle.{{Sfn|Moore|2019|pages=29–33}} Several months later, the family moved again to [[West Hollywood, California]], where Moore's mother took a job working for a magazine distribution company.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /> Moore attended [[Fairfax High School, West Hollywood, California|Fairfax High School]] there.<ref name="VF-aug1991-p144" /> In 2019, she stated she was raped at 15 by landlord Basil Doumas, then 49.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theblast.com/c/demi-moore-book-rape-interview-howard-stern-val-dumas-rapist-daughters/|work=The Blast|title=Demi Moore Reveals To Howard Stern Her Rapist Had A Daughter Her Age|author=Mike Walters|date=October 9, 2019|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=July 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011952/https://theblast.com/c/demi-moore-book-rape-interview-howard-stern-val-dumas-rapist-daughters/|url-status=live}}</ref> Doumas claimed he had paid Moore's mother to get access to Moore to rape her, although Moore said it is unclear if this were true.<ref>{{cite news|first=Erin|last=Jensen|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880743/demi-moore-inside-out-reveals-rape-marriage-failure-substance-abuse-ashton-kutcher|title=Demi Moore memoir details teen rape, substance abuse, why Ashton Kutcher marriage failed|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=September 23, 2019|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924080607/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880743/demi-moore-inside-out-reveals-rape-marriage-failure-substance-abuse-ashton-kutcher|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/24/demi-moore-reveals-she-was-raped-aged-15-in-new-memoir|title=Demi Moore reveals she was raped age 15|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London, England|date=September 24, 2019|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924125203/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/24/demi-moore-reveals-she-was-raped-aged-15-in-new-memoir|url-status=live}}</ref>

In November 1978, Moore moved in with 28-year-old guitarist Tom Dunston, quitting high school in her junior year to work as a receptionist at [[20th Century Fox]] —a job she secured through Dunston's mother, who was an executive assistant to producer [[Douglas S. Cramer]].{{sfn|Moore|2019|page=24}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Demi, More or Less |first=Walter |last=Thomas |magazine=Scene|date=January 1987|page=33 (unnumbered)}}</ref> She signed with the [[Elite Modeling Agency]], then enrolled in acting classes after being inspired by her next-door neighbor, 17-year-old German starlet [[Nastassja Kinski]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=John Casablancas Modeling & Career Centers Re-opens in Chicago|publisher=John Casablancas Modeling & Career Centers|via=[[PRWeb]] |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/5/prweb942664.htm|date=May 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919083959/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb942664.htm|archive-date=September 19, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="VF-augu1991-p145">Collins, p. 145</ref> Moore's first and second roles as a professional actress were guest spots on the TV shows ''[[W.E.B.]]'' and ''[[Kaz (TV series)|Kaz]]'' (though neither is listed in her IMDb filmography).<ref>{{cite interview|series=KCRA News|title=Demi Moore on career and family growth|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r-w179x3Vg|date=1988|author=Martin, Harry|time=3:10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Two New 'GH' Sisters May Lure a Lonely Luke|first=Jon-Michael|last=Reed|date=January 22, 1982|work=Philadelphia Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/185298710|quote=For TV series she played a teenage prostitute in an episode of ''Kaz'' and an innocent teen for the short-lived ''W.E.B.''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Moore put in time on 'Hospital' soap|first=Bettelou|last=Peterson|date=December 27, 1987|work=The Post-Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/347266455|quote=It was her first important role after making her debut in an episode of the CBS series ''Kaz'' in 1979.}}</ref><ref>{{cite interview|series=W Magazine|title=Demi Moore Knows All About Resilience|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6q3jbyhnTM|date=2025|author=Hirschberg, Lynn|time=2:29}}</ref>{{sfn|Moore|2019|page=60}} In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday,<ref name="DEMI MOORE (Songwriter) BIO">{{cite web|url=http://www.demophonic.com/bio/demimoor.html|title=Demi Moore (Songwriter) Bio|publisher=Demophonic Music|access-date=March 22, 2012|archive-date=December 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219214049/http://demophonic.com/bio/demimoor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Moore met musician Freddy Moore,<ref name="VF-augu1991-p145" /> at the time leader of the band Boy, at the Los Angeles nightclub [[The Troubadour (Los Angeles)|The Troubadour]].<ref name="embassy" /> He obtained a divorce in late 1980 and married Demi six weeks later.<ref name="embassy">{{cite press release|title=Demi Moore, Female Lead in 'Parasite,' Rocketed to Fame in 'General Hospital' |website=[[Parasite (1982 film)|Parasite]]|publisher=[[Embassy Pictures]], 1982|page=2}}</ref>