Demi quit school at the age of 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. At 18 she married rock musician Freddy Moore; the marriage lasted four years. At 19 she became a regular on the TV show "General Hospital" .  She landed a role in the 80's brat pack movie St. Elmo's Fire (1985). In 1987 she married Hollywood Star Bruce Willis (divorced in 1999).  With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Since the huge commercial success of Ghost (1990) and the controversial pictures Indecent Proposal (1993) and Disclosure (1994) she's one of Hollywood's most sought-after and most expensive actresses. Trivia: In order to play a coke addict, Jules, in St. Elmo's Fire, she had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her own alchahol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her life to turn around